The moment when it's time to start planting seedlings depends on many factors: the climatic features of the region, the duration of the vegetation period of different plants, the way of planting (immediately into the open ground or first into the greenhouse), the desired time for harvesting or flowering for flower crops,
Formula for calculation when planting seedlings
In short, the seeding date formula is as follows: the day of the planned planting in the soil (greenhouse) minus the number of days from seedling to seedling minus the number of days from sowing seeds to sowing them.
Thus it is necessary to do a discount for surprises of the nature, tracing long-term forecasts of warming. For example, if April promises to be cool, and the seedlings can not be planted, then it is better to sow later, so that it does not outgrow, waiting for the establishment of heat.
Number of days for emergence of vegetables:
- tomatoes peck after 6-10 days;
- cucumbers - after 3-7 days;
- pepper - 7-15 days after sowing;
- squash, squash, squash - after 3-10 days;
- salad - 4-10 days;
- cabbage - 3-10 days;
- eggplant - 5-10 days.
Disembarkation of the finished seedlings:
- pepper and tomatoes - 60 days after emergence;
- zucchini and cucumber - after 30-40 days;
- onion - after 60-70 days;
- cabbage - after 50 days;
- Eggplants - after 65-70 days.
When to plant pepper seedlings?
It is difficult to say the exact date, rather, you can calculate the approximate period. What can be stated quite definitely - pepper is a more thermophilic plant in comparison with tomatoes, so that it is planted later.
For the middle band, the recommended time for seeding peppers for seedlings (according to the above formula): February 19 - March 11 for landing in a greenhouse; March 11 - April 1, for planting seedlings immediately in the open ground. The very landing will be for the periods of April 29 - May 20 in the greenhouse and May 20 - June 10 in the open ground.
Additionally, you need to consider the advice of the lunar calendar, which each year is slightly different. After making the necessary adjustments, you can calculate the optimal dates.
When can you plant tomato seedlings?
Since tomatoes are grown almost all truck farmers without exception, this issue is very relevant. For the middle belt, this period is always about the end of March, since the time when it is already possible to plant seedlings in a greenhouse or open ground occurs at the end of May - early June.
Counting the time of emergence and development of tomato seedlings by the formula, we get such dates of seed sowing: for the greenhouse and for open ground it is about March 20-29. In more southern regions, the dates are shifted to the middle or the end of February (for a more precise definition of the date, be guided by the forecast and the lunar calendar).
When to plant flowers on seedlings?
If you want to decorate your garden with flowers, you need to take care of it in February. And some flowers, for example - pansies or cloves Shabo, you can sow in January.
In February, you can plant such flowers: begonia, petunia, pelargonium,
If you have the opportunity of additional lighting and a place for keeping the seedlings in the winter, you can safely proceed to the sowing works as early as the beginning of February. Then a lush bloom can be observed already in May-June.
Of course, when calculating the timing, you need to consider the characteristics of hybrids, the timing of flowering, the gap between germination of seeds and the beginning of flowering. Regarding the last factor, we can say that for some flowers this interval is a month, for others it is 2 or more.