Seed Season!
- Lisa
- Mar 6, 2025
- 2 min read
Your seeds will be in the mail next week! I have been sorting to make sure you have a great variety, some to start outside, some to start inside or to wait later in the spring -after the chance of frost is gone. The Farmer's Almanac has a great website in which you can enter your zip code and it will give you your last frost date and first frost date for the fall.
In Columbia, our last frost date should be March 24, 2025. In our webinar I discussed how folks who have been growing for a while typically do not plant until after Good Sunday. However, Easter is very late this year, so it may not be as accurate in terms of when it is safe to put seeds or small seedlings in the ground. Keep check on your weather forecasts and plant accordingly.
If a frost does happen upon you, after you have planted, just be sure to cover your tender plants with sheets or other coverings until the low temperatures pass.
Meanwhile, I have already put potatoes in a pot outside, as well as some herbs such as dill, sage, borage, chamomile, and rue. They have been in the ground for a good week and are already starting to grow!
In the greenhouse tomatoes are growing, pepper seeds are planted, along with okra, squash, cucumber and more. So as soon as your seeds come, go ahead and start some inside if you can!
One good thing about getting a jump on squash is that planting early allows you to have a squash harvest before the squash borers invade. Then, once their life span has run its cycle, late July, we can plant more squash safely. Squash borers and squash bugs tend to be one of our most pesky bugs. And we'll talk more on that at our next webinar.
Almost spring and it's feeling good!
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