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Seed Starting In Canada. Seeds You Can Start In February In A Canadian Climate? Gardening in Canada
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Apr 27, 2022
Are you looking to start seeds in Canada? There are some seeds you can starting while gardening in Canada. With a Canadian climate you will want to start things such as onions, leeks, flowers, and anything with 120 plus day’s needed. Seed Starting In Canada. Seeds You Can Start In February In A Canadian Climate? Gardening in Canada. Join our monthly newsletter! newsletter.gardeningincanada.net Website/Blog & FREE printables: https://gardeningincanada.net Leave Me A Voice Message To Be Included In The Podcast: https://memo.fm/gardeningincanada/ —————— ?? Grab A Planner! Paperback Houseplant Planner: https://geni.us/NFTrl2 Paperback Garden Planner: https://geni.us/s9zc Digital Download Planners https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/GardeningInCanada
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Hello, plant people. How are you guys doing today? If you're any around here, my name's Ashley and I'm a sole scientist on this channel. I like to take that science and applies all things plants. And in today's video, we're talking about seed starting. Not really talking about it. It's kind of like a plant with me video this time around. I'm planting for Zone 3 in Saskatchewan. We're approximately forever days away from spring. But between now and
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about mid-February is a great time for people in zone three, zone four, zone five, pretty
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much all the zones to start on those 120-ish days to harvest plants if you have them
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or things that take a longer period of time to Germany in general
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So I'm going to be planting leeks, celery, rustle sprouts, cayenne peppers, madhatters
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and onions and by mad hudders and conier or conier cayenne peppers those i'm going to be putting in like
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separate basket from these because these are going to be like in a colder cooler
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environment than these you guys do need a little bit of heat to get going and i'm actually going to
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put them in the instapot pre-film that and then film when i go to take them out of the instapot what
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everything looks like so any hoosers let's get down to it so if you haven't watched the videos before
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I do doing three quarters of a tray of coconut quire because the peat moss I got was junk
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It's a Miracle Grow brand. Literal junk and I'm just doing that much with Miracle Grove
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So fingers crossed coconut quire is a good one to start with, hopefully
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Finger cross, like I said. But any hoosers, I thought we would sit and chat while you guys watch what I do here
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I'm trying to film shorter videos. because that's what the algorithm wants to be totally honest with you kind of difficult
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very good to do especially with the type of content that i'm aiming for that toll was not full which is
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like more so educational and stuff but i don't know it seems like the videos that are like five minutes
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i do like go far and wide and i attract quite the the group but the longer videos i get just my regular
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like my regulars you know which is fine I don't think wrong with that I've got I knew this was
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gonna happen with this coconut choir okay so you guys if you get the coconut quarker and I said to watch
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for this and then I clearly did not take the time to go through this properly you really got to
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make sure this is packed in properly there's gonna be a lot of air pockets in any sort of
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see any sort of coconut carb based medium there's a high risk of air pockets which is not
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going to be a good thing it's not to your benefit there's a reason why there's no pearlite in
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uh seat starting mixes made out of heat right so i don't really measure depth if i'm being totally
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honest i just kind of stick my finger in gently make a little hole and then i'll top with vermicula
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more so than potting soil. I find ponny salt to be a little bit too heavy
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It can hamper the rates of germination I also find with vermiculite that it is like kind of a preventative for fungal growth Not that the white fungus is bad
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Like the white fungus is in the end of the world. It just is an indication of potentially over moist soils
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So I guess what is it called? What's the saying? You guys don't know what the saying is
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The saying where they say the sign, the sign for Armagedon, white fungus isn't a bad thing
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White fungus is just a sign of overly moist soil that's decomposing
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which can result in other bacterial issues that eventually will lead to dampening off
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So white fungus isn't the cause of your dampening off per se. It's other fungal bacterial growth within your soil that caused the dampening off process
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Does that make any sense? Comment down a little if that makes sense. Another thing I will say, especially since this is becoming like more and more mainstream
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try to avoid don't put like microized fungi or plant food I'm doing a video on that
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you guys are going to cause my red hair to go gray they had to do a video on plant food
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I came on getting asked questions about the best plant food no not fertilizer food
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you guys are talking about literal food and you had me so caught off guard with some of these products
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I was like you actually are you serious? Are you serious? right now anyways I don't do a video on that do not add that shit to this so things
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like super fluoride marophyll junk liquid dirt bios do not put that in your
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seats or any mix you will kill your freaking flowers for your plants just in
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general you will kill them I'm not lying to you I won't lie to you you kill your
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down plants just don't do it bad choice so when I do these cells I do like two or
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three leaps this is leaps in here right now two or three per cell and then I will go
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in a murderous round page and eliminate the outside ones I'm gonna do two rows
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there cover those up and then I'm going to do to do two rows
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here who else out there thinks they did a good job on their like packing in their seed
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cells but then they go to like actually go do it you're like oh i didn't pack that in at all
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me that's me so do some leaky leeks i don't know i think some of these are going to go to the gar or
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to the farm to be honest they won't be here in the city we'll see things like not so much leaks but onions
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you like that darker, colder environment, darker, colder environment
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Okay, so I wanna just fill this in. This romiculiculate does help to keep some of that moldy residue off too
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And then you miss that. That's what you do with that stuff. You don't water it
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You missed it or like shake your bottle it, lightly drip on it, type of that
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So I'm gonna do small little divvets here. Got these awesome onions from West Coast
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Actually has anyone ordered from Bakers Creek in Canada And if so what up with their shipping Do they ship their shit on time because I been waiting for stealth seeds from them for like three weeks and I was gonna recommend
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them because everyone's like oh they're so awesome but now I'm kind of like taking their
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time these guys are fast though so I'm gonna try this onion this is the calaceae I put
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the did a blog post on these guys and I did just
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a blog post on onions growing in Canada in general. It's so funny how these look identical to
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leeks seeds. But anyway, so I want to grow these guys. Apparently, they are not only humongous
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humongous, new word, not only are the humongous, but they're sweet onions. So they're tasty
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and used to cooking and all the other craziness of the world. And my
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family is onion city we like your onions so I'm excited to try these out um this is one of
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my first years doing onions from seed for the first time in a long time we'll see if I
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have the patience for this I'm not sure I will but supposedly the seeds method
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yields larger onions in general. So I guess we're about to find out. I did pre-steralize this all
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so if you don't know what I'm talking about, go check out that video. I basically talked about
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just getting rid of all the stuff that can cause any sort of harm to your babies, your baby
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plants, fungus mold, all that fun stuff. Top liberally with some vermicium right now. Where's my vermiculite? But it's a nice light
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formula. Yeah, it's nice and light. It holds a decent amount of moisture. It lets
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light penetrate through it. What is coming out? Oh, there's a pot in there. I was like
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why, what's why the laws of physics evading me right now? They're not
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Oh god. Sometimes I wonder why my house is always a mess
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And then I realize why my house is always a mess. Because I'm in control of it
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That's fine. Okay. Guys had to remind me if you see this video, someone comment down below
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Make sure you filled in your planner. But I forgot. What's up
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So some of the funny questions I've been getting over on, uh
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TNs, like on Instagram and stuff. I've gotten questions asking if my hair color is real
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Hair color is... Nope, I didn't need to kick it. My hair color is very real
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I was born this way. Actually, I shouldn't say that. I was born with even more red hair
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It was closer to that of a fire truck engine. And then it turned into more of a mahogany over time
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So, fun fact about me. Yes, this is me in all my glory
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I'm not special. I hated my red hair for a huge majority of my life, even in college
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And I don know if it because I grew up with the generation that was super anti We had like kick a Ginger Day and stuff I don know if there any genders out there that remember that
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but I was part of the Kicka Ginger Generation. So no one really liked us
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I don't think anyone's ever really liked Redheads, to be honest. So I really didn't like my hair, but I'm not gonna lie
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Ever since I started doing YouTube, or something's changed, I don't know what has changed
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but redhead is like that's the thing to be now which is so funny because the torment I went through
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and my earlier years actually kind of funny because it made me quite a tough lady in my older years and actually
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I think the the my toughness came down to more so um like when I get like nasty comments on
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YouTube, for example, I don't really, like I'm not very phased by them. I kind of like, I'm like
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okay, whatever. Because I was so tormented as a child. That, like, insults are kind of like
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okay, like, that's not new to me. I got called that all the time when I was a little, plus I'm
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left-handed. That's why I'm using my left-hand right now. I'm left-handed, so it's just like a double
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freaking whammy. Not good. So that's celery seed. That's a lot, actually
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Quite a bit. 100 days. Did you know that? What's another question I got
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Oh, kitchen top composters. So I got a kitchen top composter. Or sorry
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I got a DM about a kitchen top composter. And I was asked, like, whether or not it works, what's in it, all that sort of stuff
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I've been like trying to look into them. They're the ones that have like the heating pressure
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It looks almost like a pressure cooker, to be totally honest with you. Scenario going on
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And so I looked into them. I emailed the company as asking for more info
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So anyways, I emailed these companies to ask where everything was at
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like how they work and if they could provide some information for me
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all that fun stuff. And they basically all just ignore me. They don't want to tell me how it is
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works or what's in it or how it's made so that's kind of depressing if any of you guys have those
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kitchen top heater compost or things like then um it's one made by ninja i believe ninja foods like
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yes like the ninja blender that company it's 500 bucks i think you have one DME i need info
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so i can do a video on it but yeah ultimately Okay, these are done. This is what I'm starting. I'm gonna put the clear top on. I'm gonna leave
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these four cells open for whatever else I want to put in there at a later date
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Maybe start some more do like a second wave of onions or something the next one. But yeah, that's literally all I'm gonna do for 120 days
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I could do lufas and stuff. I don't even know where my leaf seeds are right now
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Well, yeah, they're in the kitchen. I can do some lufas too, I guess
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But these cells are too small, so I need to do them in a larger size cell
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But yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, be sure to give it a thumbs up. Let me know in the comments down below
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what video you want to see next. Hit that subscribe button, and I will talk to you guys next time. Bye
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