@riverflows for me, I seed start peppers about 8-10 weeks before LAST FROST. I seed start tomato 6-8 weeks before last frost. Cucumber, Squash, Zucchini, Melon, etc about 6 weeks before last frost date. All indoors, all under grow lights, and all on a heat mat, for warmth.
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Fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing - that's really useful! We have a much longer growing season here and I do have the polytunnel but I think I'd do some indoors with the heat pad as I have my mushroom grow martha inside anyway. I have found I get awesome results growing the capsicums (as we call pepperes here) in the polytunnel in wicking buckets - they get more water and heat there and fertiliser too than the garden proper. I wouldnt have a clue when our last frost is ahha...well, probs September sometime so if I rewind six weeks from there that'll be on the money for getting seeds in in the next fortnight before I go back to work! but all i know is I'm sorting out seeds and potting mix and tidying up ready to get them in soonish is some form!
We get last frost 1st of May (average) and first frost mid to late October... about 175 growing days for much. Some, like my potato, and some cold weather greens, I can grow later or earlier.
Our winters can have a meter or more of snow, and at times, well below -20ºC
Your winters are crazy. We rarely have snow near me - it's a thrill if there is, and we drive to find it altitude (up in the mountains it's a great ski season). My jalapenos are STILL ripening in the polytunnel and it's gone mid winter now! I mean, I'm cold - but minimum -5 is super rare and days get to more like 12 ish and we're all moaning it's cold! Which it is, for us. A metre of snow in my garden is just inconcievable to me. Like, mindblowing.