Useful table on when to start seeds indoors, when to plant outside and when to harvest.
Zones and Plant Times
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The best part about this time of year is planning your garden with all the flowers, vegetables, herbs, or berries you want to harvest all summer long. But then you get to the seed-shopping phase, during which you encounter a wide array of strange terms that can make your gardening turn from a fun hobby into something resembling a science experiment. Hybrid? Open-pollinated? Cultivar? It can...
Seed shopping by mail can certainly liven up a dreary winter’s day. These guidelines will help you make the best seed choices for your garden:
1. Peruse a variety of seed catalogs to compare selection and prices.
2. Start seed shopping in winter so you can work out the details of your seed-sowing and transplanting schedule.
3. Keep all seed catalogs for use as reference...
Check out the handy chart for knowing when to plant...
Timing is everything. To start your seeds on time, you need to know when in relation to the frost-free date in spring to plant them. If you need help determining your spring frost-free date, call your county extension agent who can tell you for certain.
Creating Your Seed-Starting Plan
- Print the seed starting...
This great interactive tool will help you find out when it the optimal time for you to start your seedlings indoors. Enter your last frost date of the spring in the box at the top of the page and click "Enter" (http://www.johnnyseeds.com/e-PDGSeedStart.aspx). You can then see for each vegetable when to start them inside and when it...
According to this chart (http://www.gardencoacheschat.com/canada-frost-dates/northwest-territorie...), you can find your community and see what your last frost date is in the Spring and your first frost date is in the fall. This information will help you plan when to plant your plants...
This map will help you find which zone you belong to. Basically, in the NWT, we belong to zones 0 or 1 depending where you live. This limits the number of varieties of plants, fruits and vegetables we can grow and which can survive our winters.
http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/climate/hardiness/intro.html
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Yukon Vegetable Growth Table
Useful table on when to start seeds indoors, when to plant outside and when to harvest.