Zone 3 Top 10 Best Short Season Vegetable Varieties & Indoor Sowing Tips

My Zone 3 Top 10 Vegetable Seed varieties, tips on growing from seed indoors in Zone 3

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My tested favourite seed varieties offer less growing days to maturity without compromising on flavour.
Cabbage: Tiara. Early maturing, sweet and very tender
Watermelon: Sureness. Early maturing, sweet, juicy, icebox size
Bell Peppers: Red Knight and/or Olympus. Early maturing, thick walled, juicy, tons of flavour & heavy yields
Hot Peppers: Flaming Flare. Early, very productive, Scoville up to 1000 heat units, good holding both on plant and in the fridge
Cucumbers: Summer Dance (long english type). Very productive, not bitter, good disease resistance, parthenocarpic
Corentine (fresh eating or pickling). Very productive, not bitter, parthenocarpic, good disease resistance
Tomatoes: Juliet. Smaller 2-bite type of tomato. Great flavour, low acid, good for sauce, roasting, cooking, snacking
Squash: Early Butternut Hybrid. Matures early, smaller size
Green Beans: Provider (bush beans). Good germination in cool conditions, reliable, tender, straight
Onion: Cartier hybrid (yellow onion). Not strong tasting, good bulbing, great storage onion
Corn: Northern Supersweet. Early maturing, reliable, sweet

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[dougtheslug]

I agree, you got to have a plan and the right conditions inside to have your plants going out at the right time healthy and strong, not struggling, starving and falling behind, chances are they will not produce what you want. Eastern Ontario here zone 4b but last year was more like a zone 5. I have 3 sessions down in my grow room, mid Feb, Mar and Apr and I'm itching to get down there. Like you said, be patient, that's the best advice. Cheers and happy gardening everyone.

[duanesbuhler]

Starting my perennial flowers, may do asparagus soon.

[nivikoseven]

Great video and thanks for sharing. You've inspired me to try Summer Dance cucumbers this season! I'm in southern Ontario. :)

[SmallBlessingsHomestead]

We are located in short season climate in New Brunswick. The best paste tomato for us is Napoli paste tomato (indeterminate). We have consistently tried a wide range of plum style paste tomatoes with varying degrees of success but in our climate with a ton of heat and rain here during the summer we have the best success with Napoli heirloom seeds from Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds from Ontario (I’m not affiliated). We’ve saved seeds successfully from our Napoli paste tomatoes to use again.

[neethuvijayan]

Great video. We are located in Alberta. Can you please do videos when you start tomatoes seeds, watermelon and other seeds. Please include the staring of Onion seeds as well . Thank you 🙏 😊

[carolyn]

I have to learn how to outsmart the flea beetles this year if I want cabbage and radishes. I've never had to deal with those pests before last year at our new home in farm country southern Alberta. This year I have screen cover, hope it works. If you have that issue, a video would be great. Just a suggestion.

[marinar]

Thank you so much for the shearing your knowledge and experience! Finally I found someone growing in my zone (Winnipeg, Manitoba) that is making sense. I have been gardening for about 18 years, expending my garden, which is hard being in a city zone :) I've never had good crops with my sweet peppers. Just one or two fruits, that's all! No problem with tomatoes, cucumbers or even hot peppers! Any suggestions? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[Sylvie_M]

With the reordering of the planting zone map, did your zone change? I have used Patterson and Candy as white storage onions. Both are very good long day storage varieties for short seasons.