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Questions tagged [planting-times]

For questions when to plant plants or sow seeds

Use this tag for questions about when to sow seeds or when to plant plants. The answer will be very dependent on the plant type and your climate. Please provide as much information as you can (eg. location, first/last frost, high temps,etc).

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Can I start germinating plant seeds indoors in August, and keep them inside for planting next April?

I intuitively feel this is wrong, but I'd like to start the seeds of a plant indoors now, in August, and keep the young plants in containers until the next spring. I'd want to transplant them outside some time around the month of April. It's at 45°…
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Growing fava beans when too hot for flowering; since perennial, will they eventually fruit later in the year?

I read that fava beans' flowers become sterile if temperatures are sustained >80dF. I have fava beans given to me from a sub-tropical climate and wonder if I can grow them in temperature climate (hardiness zone 4/5). Reading about the plant it seems…
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A question about the minimum blossom temperature of fruit trees and shrubs

I am making a webapplication for gardeneres that comes with a few tools. One of which is to be able to automatically create a planting calendar that is based on the monthly average temperature curve of the user who is requesting the planting…
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Crop rotation taking into account over wintering veggies

I'm looking for some good sources (or just ideas) for multi-season plantings that also follow rotation by plant family. We have six beds and are trying to maximize not on only space but length of season. Here in Seattle we can often grow spring and…
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