How to Start Tomato/Vegetable Seeds Without Grow Lights: Join Grow It Cook It Eat It

This is an example of the videos you will find there for 2017. Yes... I am asking you to come join our Grow It Cook It Eat It FB group and check it out. The group is about sharing home grown & cooked food with family and friends.

Coley and I will be continuing the Grow It Cook It Eat series for 2017. Full videos are planned for YouTube but this is not one of them. I will be putting a lot of videos just like this one, exclusively, in our GCE FB Group. Garden tips videos with no commercials.

[BenjasUberHobby]

I am horrible at hardening off my plants. So when I start my plants inside I tend to take them out and leave them out as soon as they break the surface. this is great advice :)

[christinarao-singleton]

Nice to know I can start tomato plants this way. Thank you and I admire your knowledge on all of your videos.

[izl]

My tomatoes are flowering and my squash have Great video!

[hoppett]

Thanks for the video. I used to start my seedlings on my window sill cause I couldn't buy a grow light and they got so leggy they would just fall over and when I would take them outside they would die. With this video they did not grow legging thank you.

[CVoyage]

I would LOVE to be able to germinate maters at 40F. It doesn't seem like a good idea Gary! But, I want to expand my "truth" so I want to make sure. You get great germination at low temps like that?
Brent

[brandyj.]

I'm a new gardener and this is exactly what I was looking for. I see there is no lid. Also, how and when do you water these? I'm container gardening only this season and I just started my indoor sowing. Never have done this before. :-) thanks

[DelightfulSouvenirs]

Those are good suggestions. Thank you.

[wipeoutxl]

are you starting tomatos now? Since we are in the same zone/state I would be curious what you start and when, maybe a calendar...

[wipeoutxl]

mmm dirt Popsicles, thats what it looked like to me :D

[alexdergacheff]

I have pepper seedlings and tomatoes and some other vegetable. I live in Florida and it's already in the 90's.

I took my seedlings out the other day for 45 minutes and a couple of them fell over.

What do I do? They're sitting in a sunny window right now.

[WONDERring]

Hi, Gary. Love your channel. I didn't know you sell seeds. Where do I find them? I've got some leggy beets and broccoli growing in a grow light tote that I made from your channel. They're an inch and a half. What should I do with them? Are they compost material? How do I keep them from getting leggy? Thanks

[jonnieking]

I was reading that the sun would roast the seeds if you start them outdoors is that incorrect? I live in LA and it's very hot here right now in the summer so I was trying to germinate them in a dark space and then introduce them to light slowly. Please let me know what you think the best way for summer is.

[LindaMoeMoe]

Hi Gary: I live in the Pacific Northwest where it's cloudy for most of spring. How long would seedlings have to be outside in order to get sufficient sunlight for growth? I also have south facing windows, do you think having seedlings next to them will be enough? Thanks!

[vandall]

I live in Connecticut and don't know if can do this or not. There are a lot of days where it's still freezing outside around mid march where starting seedlings is best for a mid may transplant. Thoughts?

[ImASurvivorNThriver]

Good stuff! Where could I get the popsicle sticks from? Thanks for sharing.

[CaryHaven]

Hi, doing this and it is working well, but this week we have had several very cloudy days in a row. The forecast is for another week of cloudy days with all the way from drizzle to thunderstorms. I know some sun comes through the clouds, but is this going to harm my seedlings that I have read need copious amounts of sunshine in the beginning of their life? Thank you!

[Sweet_Pea_]

First time container gardener.... I live in zone 8 (Alabama) so it'll be fine to sow seeds and let them be outside from 6a-2p?... I don't have any grow lights or anything

[halodave]

First time gardening! I live in Southern California where it's always above frost. Can I germinate outdoors while I'm at work even if I don't have grow lights?

[jamesb]

Gary what does the average inside temp need to be for them to survive, because we have someone here that loves to cut the heat off at night,

[matthewbrisbois]

Hey I live in Mount Dora Florida. We have so much sun, I want to utilize the amount but it’s so hot can I put seeds outside or will they die from the crazy heat