Too Late

tlcmd · June 22, 2018

Live in zone 7B (Greensboro, N.C.). Is it too late to start squash, cucumbers, and determinate tomatoes from seeds using a seed starter and seed flats.? Ditto to root wormwood?

Thanks,
tlcmd

Nan_PA_6b · June 22, 2018

Determinate tomatoes: 1 1/2 months indoors, plus 2 1/2 months from plant-out to maturity, so 4-4 1/2 months from now you'd be starting to get tomatoes if all goes well. That would mean tomatoes at the end of October or beginning of November. They'd probably be delayed due to the cold, though. If you do it, I'd use the earliest tomatoes you've got (fewest DTM).
Nan

slugworth · June 22, 2018

cukes only take 60 days so I am going to start some myself.
japanese soyu

730dcm · June 22, 2018

You would be better of to direct seed vs pot this point in the games

imp · June 22, 2018

I'll be starting some late season squash and cukes here in Texas, plus some melons and corn, too. Hopefully, will fool some of the squash bugs and other pests.

fonseca · June 24, 2018

I'm planting cucumber seeds outside direct to final containers today, zone 7B/8A. I get more cukes if I pull up the first round of plants started in the spring before pest and disease becomes a big problem. I get a decent harvest mid-summer as long as the plants stay watered.

mecktom · June 24, 2018

Plenty of time to plant and get tomatoes. I will plant my Fall tomatoes around July 4th or a week later. Root some of the suckers and you will save a lot of time.

slugworth · June 24, 2018

I had cukes in hanging baskets last year and got 2 crops from them before fall.

June 22, 2018	#1
tlcmd Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Greensboro, N.C. Posts: 132	Too Late Live in zone 7B (Greensboro, N.C.). Is it too late to start squash, cucumbers, and determinate tomatoes from seeds using a seed starter and seed flats.? Ditto to root wormwood? Thanks, tlcmd __________________ Harmmmmmmmmmoniously, Dick "If only Longstreet had followed orders......" "Show me something more beautiful than a beautiful woman and then I'll go paint it." Alberto Vargas

June 22, 2018	#2
Nan_PA_6b Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 3,194	Determinate tomatoes: 1 1/2 months indoors, plus 2 1/2 months from plant-out to maturity, so 4-4 1/2 months from now you'd be starting to get tomatoes if all goes well. That would mean tomatoes at the end of October or beginning of November. They'd probably be delayed due to the cold, though. If you do it, I'd use the earliest tomatoes you've got (fewest DTM). Nan

June 22, 2018	#3
slugworth Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: connecticut,usa Posts: 1,150	cukes only take 60 days so I am going to start some myself. japanese soyu

June 22, 2018	#4
730dcm Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: USA Posts: 28	You would be better of to direct seed vs pot this point in the games

June 22, 2018	#5
imp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Posts: 4,832	I'll be starting some late season squash and cukes here in Texas, plus some melons and corn, too. Hopefully, will fool some of the squash bugs and other pests.

June 24, 2018	#6
fonseca Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 205	I'm planting cucumber seeds outside direct to final containers today, zone 7B/8A. I get more cukes if I pull up the first round of plants started in the spring before pest and disease becomes a big problem. I get a decent harvest mid-summer as long as the plants stay watered.

June 24, 2018	#7
mecktom Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Southern Virginia Posts: 342	Plenty of time to plant and get tomatoes. I will plant my Fall tomatoes around July 4th or a week later. Root some of the suckers and you will save a lot of time.