When will be the prime time to start seeds indoors?

Question

Plants such as pumkin seeds, watermelon seeds, and those hunking veggies.

Answer 1

Certain seeds should be sown indoors. These include eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkin, watermelon as well as many flowers. You should plant them 8 to 10 weeks before the last day of frost in your area. Other seeds can be sown directly outdoors such as lettuce, beets, carrots, cucumbers and beans.  You can sow lettuce in the spring as soon as the ground can be worked. This is what is known as a cool season plant.

Answer 2

Depends entirely on where you live.  Two weeks before the last killing frost for the plants that you mentioned. Three weeks for tomatoes and peppers and other tiny seeded plants.

Answer 3

John is correct...it entirely depends on WHERE you live.  What plant zone are you?

I live in Idaho, in plant zone 4, borderline 3.  We have a scant 90 frost free days.  It wouldn't make sence for me to even think about starting plants for another two months.

Even my sunporch (completely encolosed), which is where I start seedlings will not get above 15 degrees these days.  

In some areas that are much more temperant, people are already starting seeds.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 4

the packages themselves usually tell you...

first you have to find out what is the day of last frost in your area.. then calculate back based on what the seed package says

eg.  Start indoors 4-6 weeks before last frost.

Answer 5

lettuce and peppers lots of herbs i planted in trays this week