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Ok, I'm confused about growing cabbage and celery and I need native Mainer's help.

Do you start these inside from seed? If so, when?

Any help is much appreciated. And buckabucka, I got my onions started today, thanks to you!

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Originally Posted by buckabucka 

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Originally Posted by superchemicalgirl 

Ok, I'm confused about growing cabbage and celery and I need native Mainer's help.

 

Do you start these inside from seed? If so, when?

 

Any help is much appreciated. And buckabucka, I got my onions started today, thanks to you!

 

 

 

 

Well, no native Mainer here, but I do grow a lot of stuff. I've only done celery once. I didn't pay much attention to it, and I still got celery, but it was kind of small and tough, and I really don't like celery all that much, so that was the only time.
If you do grow it, I would start it indoors in early March.
Cabbage can be direct seeded, but I never do that because the flea beetles devour it immediately. Sometimes I do early and late crops, in which case I start some around April 7, and some more about April 27. It will be big enough when you set it out (don't forget to harden it off) that the flea beetle damage doesn't kill the plant. I plant it outside around May 24, with little newspaper cut-worm collars.
I have a chart that I hang up on my refrigerator every February that has a weekly breakdown of everything that needs to be started. After the onions and leeks, there is nothing (except celery on March 8) until March 22, when I will start hot peppers and eggplant. Regular peppers seem to grow faster and I wait another week to start them.
Happy planting!

Thank you for your response and the help! I had looked on MOFGA for a seed starting guide but couldn't locate one! I got 750 celery seeds in my one packet so I went ahead and started some yesterday just to see what it looks like cause I've never done it before and will have about 740 extra seeds. I'll do it when the time's "right" as well.

I also haven't had good luck with growing peppers inside, they seem to sprout and then grow about an inch before stopping. So I started just a few of those yesterday too, as an experiment to see if the much longer start under grow lights will help me. Last year the ones I transplanted out also ended up getting gnawed over by cutworms, so I've been saving TP rolls the last few months to thwart those buggers.

Oh! Another question! Do we have any fellow Mainers breeding Jersey Giants?

There is a lady in Brunswick who had a good size flock of them this fall.  She was selling them on craigslist.  I bought a pullet from her.  Great birds.

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Originally Posted by Egiroux 

There is a lady in Brunswick who had a good size flock of them this fall.  She was selling them on craigslist.  I bought a pullet from her.  Great birds.

any chance you have an email address or other contact info for her?

I've noticed one of my males sitting on the eggs WITH my broody female. This evening he was sitting on half and she was sitting on half (of 13 eggs). Also when I marked the egg they both came over and looked over the eggs before she sat on them...is this normal?? lol.

It's very cute! I've never heard of it either. But this is my first time letting my ducks hatch. I'm hoping the male stays loving like he his right now. He is my aggressive male and I'm worried he will try to hurt the babies once they are here. When I say aggressive, it means only towards the other male I have and keeping "his" females away from the other male. None of my ducks are aggressive towards me or try to scare me off..except my female on the eggs. Holy cow did she scare me! The first few days she started sitting she would take off when I came in the coop. Since she got into (getting the eggs to about day 3) she would puff up her feathers and hiss a, and jump at me. Wasn't expecting it at all! LOL!

my planting help I get from the johnny's selected seed catolog (it's online too)

it tells you all that info based on maine.

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-7524-tango-og.aspx

scroll down and click on the growing info.

or better yet, get one of their catologs, great for info on planting, storage, diseases and pest.

and they are local so you know it's maine based info, right where you are. (do I sound like a commerical  for them- yes I used to work for johnny's)

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-7524-tango-og.aspx

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Originally Posted by superchemicalgirl 

Ok, I'm confused about growing cabbage and celery and I need native Mainer's help.

 

Do you start these inside from seed? If so, when?

 

Any help is much appreciated. And buckabucka, I got my onions started today, thanks to you!