Join us and our crazy D.O.G. as we go through our seed haul and plan our spring garden for zone 8a in South Carolina. We are talking seeds and soil, garden successes and failures. We hope this give you some garden planning ideas and we would love to hear what you are planting and growing this year too!
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8 Comments
Great seed haul! I can’t wait to follow along and see your garden progress!
Thank you for the video! I am also zone 8a. I am REALLY trying to do well with gardening this year.
I want to test the soil…so I'm wondering what at home test kit did you use?
Hey, also SC and zone 8A. I'm so excited about planting and have already started planting flowers.❤
Great seed haul and ideas! We are excited to plant an herb garden for the first time! Our farm cat is very extra!
Fun video. We're in planning mode too. Go with Georgia Rattlesnake watermelons. Large and sweet. We grow a LOT of squash, melons, pumpkins, etc. If we can help you, let us know. We are subscribing to you. Please check us out!! Cheers!
So happy to find you. I'm in SC 8a as well and always interested in what others are planting. I plant several varieties of okra. I don't like okra, but love seeing the beautiful plants in my garden! There's always someone happy to take a harvest of okra! My brassicas are huge but beginning to suffer from the sun and I had to get out the shade cloth today. I've also planted more potatoes than I want to admit to. Most of my herbs produce year round and never go dormant. I cut the bottom off of a water bottle and made a little greenhouse to put over my cilantro while it was in the spindly stage and couldn't hold itself up. It really got beat down in the rain. Since then, it has weathered summer, fall, and even this winter and is still growing strong. This year, I'm trying for a giant pumpkin. I'll be following to see how you guys care for yours. Happy gardening!
thanks for sharing! I'm going to get myself tons of seeds too!
Did you maybe start your tomatoes to late? I cant figure out how you didn't get tomatoes in SC, we only had 3-4 plants and were absolutely swamped with tomatoes. We started ours last year indoors in JAN. As you know in SC we get hit with SUPRISE ITS STILL WINTER HERES A FROST JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE! And I believe last year that hit super late like april 30th we got our last freeze. I had the tomato starters in the ground beginning of april, they were a bit leggy from spending so much time indoors under grow lights, so with tomatoes if they do that, you can actually burry a tomato just leaving its top leaves (just a couple inches) and the rest of that stalk with root out and save a leggy plant. We did that in raised beds, and i think we got 2-3 frosts april, and on those nights we covered the beds with light plastic (the moving plastic from lowes as you walk out to cover stuff in the rain) and that was enough to protect them for the nights against the frost. We did do a determinate variety and a indeterminate, both did well. i cant remember exactly when we pulled them out of the beds, but i know for sure we had tomatoes coming out our ears 4th of july lol. This year I've got a green house and EVERYTHING is doing so much better then under grow lights lol. I'd really reccomend the cheap plastic one off amazon, its been 100% great, the only thing we did to it was we bought thin bendable rebar, and made big heavy U spikes to hold it first down from the wind. Basically tho if your just now doing seeds, your late, very late. Jan was a bit early, mid feb with either grow lights of preferably a green house (even the cheap one) is more ideal for our zone.