January is a quiet time in the garden, and not much is growing. And whilst it is too early to sow many crops, there are actually lots of seeds we CAN get sowing this month to get a good head start on the growing season! Our fingers are itching to get sowing down at the allotment with those January blues setting in.
Here are some things I’m sowing in the month of January, which I think you should too!
Bare in mind though that the things in my list should be started off at home or in a greenhouse. It’s too early to be direct sowing outdoors in most cases in January, as the ground will be too cold or frozen!
I’m starting some of these tender crops off at home under my grow lights and the hardier crops in my unheated greenhouse. It will be April at the very earliest when I start to move some of the tender crops down to the allotment greenhouses and polytunnels.
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-Jim 🧑🏻🌾
Watch my February sowing video here plus tips!
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Thank Jim. I've learned a lot from you this morning. Great helpful tips I can't wait to get started.
Really helpful. I'm a complete beginner. Could you make a basic starter video on what kit is needed, ie what pots, sizes, compost, a step by step guide to show the process for growing a couple of veggies, like lettuce or peppers. Thanks! 😊
Hi, great video thanks. Which marigolds do you sow now, calnedula or tagetes or both? Thank you 🙂
Not me watching this on January 30th. 😅Oh well… better late than never. Thanks. Definitely helping with the planning for this spring.
Great video a thumbs up from me
Motivating. Returning from a breakdown & need to get my act together. So many questions but I’ll get planting. Maybe a collab to monitor springtime.
I'm holding off this year with my tomato's. Chillies did very well here in the Vale of York, but I had the worst year of growing in 20 years in 2024. Never seen soooo many slugs.
Most importantly , get your winter pruning done ! . Nice relaxed video, will be tuning in for more. All the best for 2025.
Would this be ok in Scottish Borders as well? Could I grow sweet peppers from the seeds I find in the supermarket peppers
Can the sweet peas and marigolds just be left in the greenhouse? They don't require extra warmth and light like the veg seeds?
Thankyou happy gardening ❤
nice content fella really helpful
Hello from Washington State, USA! Fellow seed grower subscribing! And I agree, sowing seeds for me begins February 1st. I put the warm mats on, put my seedling trays in their mini indoor greenhouses and love watching them germinate!
A new sub..good channel. 🎉
Probably a silly question but if you don’t have a greenhouse, can you sow lettuce/spinach etc in a cold frame, please? Thanks!
Excellent reminders and information, thank you.
Very nice sharing Jim this is the best idea germinate of new seeds in January thank you brother ❤️❤❤❤
Very helpful, thank you!
Just come across your channel. Some great tips, thanks. (Now subscribed)
I love your Tommy collection!
Hybrids, not thanks!
Can i sew peppers from the seeds in the old ones ive used from the supermarket?
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Hi Jim
Here's why I shall be planting my tomatoes pretty soon, even though I haven't got a heated greenhouse. I would have planted them at the end of December, beginning of January but haven't got rain to it yet.
There's a trick you can use with tomatoes, at least if they are of the indeterminate type, to enable you to plant them early and get head start, even if you can't plant them out until April/May. If they become too big you can chop the tops, and/or the side shoots, off ,pop them into some very most compost or water and within a week or so they will start throwing out roots. This means that you can have a tomato plant that will start producing flowers and fruit earlier because the first few leaf junctions the bottom, that don't usually produce any flower/fruit trusses, has already been grown out and you will get a truss of tomatoes possibly at the first Leaf Junction.
You can also take cuttings and overwinter them. I had an Elegance tomato plant (you couldn't buy seed only plants) once that lasted three seasons. Admittedly, only the first plant was grafted to a vigorous rootstock the cuttings I took from it did almost as well. I had multiple plants from a single plant in the first season. In autumn before it got too cold and damp and blight struck I took side shoots and overwintered them in a jar of water on a north facing windowsill in our, frost-free but unheated, utility room! Growing tomatoes from side shoots rather than seed probably saves about 3 or 4 weeks of growing.
My marigolds get eaten 😢
0:35 hi there. Interesting channel – but a bit wordy !
Thanks for this, I've just moved house with a bigger garden and we want to start growing more fruit and veg (we did some last year but didn't have lots of space). I'm excited to start sowing my seeds!
Thanks for the video. Rijnsburger is pronounced 'reignsburger' from the verb 'to reign'.
Pleased to have found you! I’m in the north west too and it’s nice to have someone regionally local to me to follow.
brilliant video many thanks
Thanks only started gardening a few years ago , never planted in Jan before , getting going this afternoon x