What seeds to start indoors now (9 weeks before last frost)

Starting seeds in peat pods and Aerogarden

Saturday, February 1, 2025

There are several varieties of herbs, veggies and flowers that can be started this week indoors.  Many are the same that you could have started last week.  Planting another round will extend the harvest.  For our zone 7 garden, here are the ones you can sow indoors.  

Herbs 

*Leeks

*Sage

Veggies

*Corn salad (mache)

*Peas

*Spinach

*Cabbage

*Collards

*Kale

*Kohlrabi

*Mustard

*Lettuce

Flowers and Ornamentals

*Chinese lantern

*Verbena

*Drumstick flower

*Datura

*Blanket flower

*Helianthus maximillianii

*Hollyhock

*Lupine

*Petunia

*Prince's feather

*Black-eyed Susan

*Salvia

*Snapdragon

*Stock

*Yarrow

*Forget-Me-Not

*Hibiscus

*Impatiens

For indoor seed starting how-to and tips:  Indoor seed starting how to and tips

If you are transplanting seedlings from indoors to outdoors, be sure to harden them to the conditions they will be transplanted to.  If in a greenhouse, cold frame or hot bed, you can take outdoors when temperatures are warm or maybe an unheated garage if the temps are close to the covered location you will be placing them.  "Hardening off" seedlings 

Most of the veggies and herbs listed are cool season producers.  For more on cool season gardening, see A spring edible garden.