when to start

[population control]

for things like onions , broccoli, cauliflower, and stuff like that ?

 

[LA man]

i start early may

 

[catman529]

broccoli is a cool weather crop and they say to start it before last frost, around the same time you would start tomatoes. That means starting it indoors in a south-facing window, or even better, a 4 foot fluorescent shop light. I have 3 shop lights just for tomatoes, peppers and other early starts (one of the fixtures is shot and I need a new one). I start anywhere from mid February to very early March indoors and start hardening off after the last expected frost. Hardening off gradually just for a week or so will get them adjusted to the outdoors.

 

[WestTn Huntin man]

http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publicat ... P291-O.pdf
I like to start seed early Feb in doors or buy onion sets and plants around mid Feb.Then harden off and try to get them in the ground the 1st week or 2 of March.I have fall onions in the ground now overwintering for big mature cooking onions this spring.

 

[ShaneHallum]

We turn our garden early and let the frost bust the clogs up. We usually plant the first week of April.

 

[GRAMPS]

I put my onions out in early march.

 

[Anonymous]

I always plant onions, taters, cabbage, and such in early march.

 

[blueridge]

I think this pertains to this.I planted cauliflower,broccoli,and cabbage in late April.None of these ever produced the cauliflower were small and no heads.The broccoli were huge with tiny heads and the cabbage were of decent size but extremely loose heads.Is this because of late planting?

 

[catman529]

Blueridge I think it is because of the late planting, they say to start broccoli (and I imagine cauliflower as well) 6 to 8 weeks before last frost (which is usually mid-april) so get them started mid to late february by a south-facing window or under fluorescent shop lights. The thing is that broccoli and similar brassicas are colder weather crops if I am not mistaken, so getting them started early lets them grow before the TN summer heat kicks in.

 

[spoon]

I put the plants in the ground first week of March