Comments on: Starting Tomato, Cucumber, Watermelon, and Pepper Seedlings

By: Dikasteel

Dikasteel — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:29:19 +0000

When you transplant your tomatos ,make the hole deeper or lay your plants a bit flat so that 2 thirds are covered and they WILL grow stronger.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:26:08 +0000

Hi … Im looking some info about how to start a vegetable garden this os the first time and Im looking an advice. What kind Of vegetable seeds do you recomend or which are easier and what are better to avoid because Im Beginer and i would like to have a nice vegetables.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:42:25 +0000

Megan, I usually take the cover off mine when the first true leaves start to appear.

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:37:14 +0000

I started my seeds indoors all mine have came up good but i used the green house cover on mine to keep all the moisture in how long should i wait before not keeping the lid on them

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:56:17 +0000

Roula, if it were me, I’d make sure I had one cool and one warm fluorescent bulb. Then I’d mount them just a few inches from the tops of my plants.

By: Roula

Roula — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:20:18 +0000

Hi, Im new to the whole gardening and planting business, but it’s always been my dream to start a vegetable garden. In Edmonton, the season is pretty short, so Im starting tomatoes and other plants indoors. Id just like to know how to set up the fluorescent lights (in addition to the sunlight the plants get) over my plants. ive put them in a 5 shelf greenhouse bought from home depot. Thanks!

By: dustin

dustin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:20:10 +0000

last year i planted three watermelon (early canada) and three cantelope plants what I did not know was you only need to water them every three or four days two of the watermelon’s died the one had some golfball size fruit . However I had some cantelope that were over four inches across that was my first year with that kind of fruit/melon this year i have a variety of peppers same watermelon and cantelope and lots of flowers and tomatoes totaling almost three hundred plants . so far I have over thirty peppers and thirty tomatoes corn,broccolli,basil,thyme,and many others.this is my third year gardening i live in northern alberta and am 24 years old.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:37:33 +0000

The poor little things completely died! So sad becuase they were the best of all my seedlings, too.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:55:53 +0000

Three inches shouldn’t have been too big. Have they recovered at all now?

By: Emily

Emily — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:14:07 +0000

That was most helpful- I thought the heat and over transplanting might be the problem. I appreciate your help! Also, how big do you think they should be because they were seedlings about three inches high at most and two leaves (at the top) on each seedling? I didn’t think this was very big. Also we didn’t use peat pots but we scooped up all of their soil with them and planted them outside. They were in peat-sized divisions.