No more houseplant talk, garden columnist Jeff Lowenfels says. It’s time for flowers, vegetables and fruits, started indoors.
A bee flies between purple petals on a geranium plant in a garden near downtown Anchorage in July.
Newcomers need to know that if you miss one of these seed starting windows, it is closed for the season unless you can find the plants at a nursery. Just so you know, these suggested start dates are based on lots of experience, mine and others’, and are designed to give your plants the right amount of time to do well outdoors.
If you do start tomatoes early, use indeterminate types that will continue to bloom all summer. You could start determinate plants, but they flower only once and stop. Still, you will get early tomatoes. Just remember, either way you will need to be the pollinator as your flowers won’t be visited by outdoor insects. You will also need room to grow the plants in the house before they go into that outdoor greenhouse or cold frame.
Tuberous begonias can be lifted out of their containers and started in flats, or left in their containers. Remember, no soil or water should get into the concave area of the tubers. This is where the shoots will appear. Don’t forget to label, a rule that applies to all plantings. Fuchsia should be watered well. Trim them into a pyramid shape. Make sure to remove crossing branches. If there is a lot of spindly green growth, remove it or pinch it back.
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