{"id":452,"date":"2012-01-15T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsu.eventmedialabs.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2021-02-28T21:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T21:20:55","slug":"seeds-how-do-you-know-when-its-safe-to-sow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/seeds-how-do-you-know-when-its-safe-to-sow\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Seeds Indoors : How do you know when it’s safe to sow?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You’ve made your lists, drawn out your crop rotation plans, have your seeds and compost ready, and before long you’ll be itching to start sowing seeds.<\/span>The pressure builds as magazines and social media start to fill with stories of planting dates and there’s a\u00a0noticeable\u00a0jostle over who’s sowing seeds indoors when.\u00a0Does that sound familiar? If you’re new to vegetable gardening beware, it soon will be and before you know it you’ll be sowing too and then wondering why your seedlings are seriously struggling or have died.<\/p>\n As such an avid social media user, last year I remember feeling a sense of panic that I’d left my sowing too late, yet it wasn’t even March!\u00a0I know from experience that we can be three weeks behind the growing conditions of warmer gardens, but it was difficult not to feel left behind when being bombarded with everyone else’s reports.<\/p>\n If you attempt to sow seeds below their preferred temperature, it can result in slow germination, seeds rotting, problems with plants developing and ultimately disease as they wont have started life with the best start.<\/p>\n Seeds need heat to germinate and the requirements vary from plant to plant.<\/p>\n For instance, the optimum temperature for climbing beans is 25\u00b0C but they will germinate between 15\u00b0C and 35\u00b0C. The optimum temperature for spinach is 10\u00b0C but they will germinate between 5\u00b0C and 30\u00b0C with less success.<\/p>\nWhy is it important to sow seeds at the correct time (temperature)?<\/h3>\n
How do you know when is the best time to sow seeds?<\/h3>\n