How to get ready

Ok i live in the Carolina's and i need to know when to start growing my plants so i can put them outside or should i just plant them in the ground when it gets warm or just let them grow up b4 sticking them out.

u need to plant them in late april early may but after the last cold front of the season. and it might be best to start the plants off in a starter box for the first few weeks.

rehabreject15 said:

u need to plant them in late april early may but after the last cold front of the season. and it might be best to start the plants off in a starter box for the first few weeks.

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ok do i start them in the woods too i have a place that is off the ground so no animals can get to them there. Tom. i am going to dig the main holes so we can fill it with fert. when i go to plant them there

nuggetluver420 said:

ok do i start them in the woods too i have a place that is off the ground so no animals can get to them there. Tom. i am going to dig the main holes so we can fill it with fert. when i go to plant them there

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you need to have a place that is very secluded, no human traffic whatsoever.

Depending on whether you are a Gamecock or a Tarheel (worse yet a Bluedevil) you should start plants indoors in the next 2-3 weeks for the south, 1-2 weeks later in the north. I started mine 2 weeks ago but, have the advantage of an extensive indoor grow room to get them fairly robust before transplanting. Will wait until I get approx. 13 hrs of sunlight/day before putting them at the sites. Exposing them gradually, 2 weeks prior to transplant to natural sunshine will limit shock and/or foliar-burn.

I'm from n. carolina and plan to put them out after our last expected freeze, here in the piedmont it's late march. it differs all over, but mid april is rock solid.