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| Starting seeds in peat pods and Aerogarden |
Sunday, March 1, 2026
For indoor seed starting, it is time to start the ones that love the hot weather. You can also continue to succession sow lettuce for continuous harvest into summer. For outdoors, you can still plant the cool season lovers.
For our zone 7 garden, here are the ones you can sow indoors now:
Herbs
*Basil
*Cilantro
*Culantro
*Dill
*Feverfew
*Navajo Tea
*Butterfly Form Papalo (tastes like cilantro but loves hot weather)
*Red Shiso
Veggies/Fruits
*Amaranth
*Artichoke
*Arugula
*Basil
*Bok Choy
*Broccoli Raab
*Chinese Cabbage
*Cucumber
*Cultivated Dandelions
*Fennel
*Huckleberry
*Lambsquarter
*Leeks
*Lettuce
*Melons
*Mustard
*Okra
*Orach
*Peppers
*Pumpkins
*Radicchio
*Red Malabar Spinach
*Sorrel
*Soybean
*Summer and Winter Squash
*Tomatoes
*Watermelons
Flowers and Ornamentals
*Amaranthus
*Aster
*Blue Fescue
*Cosmos
*Fountain Grass
*Hummingbird Vine
*Hyacinth Bean
*Love in a Mist
*Luffa
*Lupine
*Marigold
*Morning Glory
*Nasturtium
*Platinum Blue
*California and Corn Poppies
*Zinnias
Few of the veggies and herbs listed are cool season producers. For more on cool season gardening, see A spring edible garden. At this point, we are adding more of the staples of the summer garden like tomatoes, basil, melons and squash. For more on summer gardening, see All about the summer edible garden
For indoor seed starting how-to and tips: Indoor seed starting how to and tips
For making your own seed starting pots: Make your own peat pots
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
Here are the crops you can sow outdoors this week.
Seeds to sow outdoors
Here is a list of the cool season crops you can sow seeds this week in the outdoor garden 4 weeks or less from the last forecasted frost.
Arugula
Beets
Bok choy
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Chard
Chervil
Chives
Collards
Corn Salad
Cultivated dandelions
Endive
Fava beans
Garlic
Kale
Kohlrabi
Leeks
Lettuce
Mache
Mustard greens
Onions
Pac choi
Parsley
Parsnips
Peas
Potatoes
Radicchio
Radishes
Rhubarb
Shallots
Sorrel
Spinach
Turnips
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| Snow pea seedlings started outdoors in February |
