![]() You want to encourage the seedling to grow outwards.įor heavy feeders like tomatoes, I also add some compost or warm casting into each hole. However, if you are dealing with heavy soil, making a slightly bigger hole makes sense. If you have loose soil, the hole does not have to be bigger than the pot of the seedling. When the seedlings and the soil are ready and the time is right, we start transplanting the seedlings into the ground.įirst, dig a hole big enough for your seedling. By the time the cucumbers will need the whole bed, kohlrabi and spinach will be done. The kohlrabi is next, and there is space left for cucumber seedlings that will be planted in a month. In the middle we have overwintering spinach growing, that was planted here last fall. This is not because they need it, but because I want to be able to interplant the bed later. As you see in my example picture above I give my early kohlrabi a lot of space. Seedlings are also great for succession planting. I like to place all my seedling pots where I want to plant them so once I start planting there is no planning needed anymore. In a poor soil and cold climate, plants grow better with a bit more space. For example plant per square foot 1 cabbage, 1 broccoli, 1 cauliflower, 1 kale, 4 celery, and 4 lettuce.Īs a rule of thumb in good soil and a warm climate, you can plant a bit more densely. Usually, the seed package tells you how much space that particular plant will need.Īlso, the square foot garden book has great information on that. We plant them according to the mature plant size. Since seedlings are already growing, there is no thinning out needed any longer. Head over and read more if the hardening off plants is new to you, or if you are interested in our easy way to do so. Seedlings can not go from indoors right into the ground, they need to get used to the environment they will be planted into. We have a whole blog article about this important step. Cool-weather crops can be planted earlier, warm weather crops need warm weather to grow. The time on the calendar for your seedling will depend on the plant variety. I can not stress this enough, do not start seeds too early! My example picture below is right on the edge of being perfect, a few days later and it could start being too late. ![]() An overgrown seedling is of no good.Ī perfect seedling has filled out the pot, but the roots are still not going round, the seedling is not rootbound. There is a danger for a seedling to be overgrown. And there is about a month between those two stages, giving us a bit of a window to transplant them. In my picture above the seedling on the left needs another week or two, the seedling on the right is very much ready. When starting your own seedlings, always consider the planting out date.Ī seedling can hardly be too young, once the true leaves are at least the size of the first leaves, it can be transplanted. All of those dates are of course according to the weather. The indoor seed starting schedule we use has not just seed-starting times but also planting out times. When to transplant seedlings into the ground From double dig, to till, to no-till, all is possible. If your soil is hard, you have to address that first. So all it needs is some fork work, to get the occasional weeds out, and racking, to even the mulch layer. In our home garden, we have no-till garden beds, that are loose and ready to be planted at all times. The soil for a seedling has to be loose and weed-free, ready to be planted just like for seeds. Also if you got multiple plants in one seedling, we have an extra blog post for that as well. We cover transplanting tomatoes and cucumbers separately since those plants are a bit different, just follow the links. ![]() As a new gardener we’d recommend to start with seedlings from a greenhouse, once you get some experience, then you would feel more confident in starting seeds yourself. Transplanting seedlings into the ground is a lot of fun, you get an instant garden to enjoy. WHEN TO TRANSPLANT SEEDLINGS HOW TOHere is the answer to how to transplant seedlings into the garden. All of the other plants mentioned in the question would be the same. The timing was also perfect since I was transplanting kohlrabi today. And sometimes all of you benefit from a good question. We love reader questions and try to answer them as well as we can. This blog article was inspired by a question from a reader who asked: Do you have some information about the best way to transplant seedlings to the garden? Especially cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, celery, and lettuce. ![]()
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