Can I plant yet?!?

[SarahFair]

. . . Ive read the last frost dates for my zone are February 28 to March 30. . .

Sarah, you've got to do better than February 28th to March 30th for a last frost date.

How about Athens -- does that city have about the same climate as your home?

The US Weather Service has the Athens Airport average day of last frost as March 24th.

Steve's digits

Ya I knew it was march 24th..
Something inside me keeps wanting to find the earliest date possible though

I got silly and started my mammoth sunflowers way early and now they are about 4" tall and toppling over. I guess I could plant them and if they dont make it just use the other pack I bought..

 

[mandieg4]

I'm a couple hours south of you and I usually wait until my son's birthday on April 12th. The guy at our local garden center always tells people to wait until tax day. Last year we got a couple inches of snow in the middle of March, so I'd wait just a couple more weeks.

Or maybe just set out half of your seedlings? That way you free up space in your house and if you do get another freeze you haven't lost anything.

 

[HunkieDorie23]

Sarah, what size containers are your sunflowers in now? I have gotten carried away before and started my stuff very early (like every year except this year). I have found that 20 oz styrofoam coffee cups are a cheap solution. They are pretty tall and might help support your stems if you plant them deeper. I have also used cottage cheese containers, the large size. The only things is you have to already have them on hand.

 

[SarahFair]

Sarah, what size containers are your sunflowers in now? I have gotten carried away before and started my stuff very early (like every year except this year). I have found that 20 oz styrofoam coffee cups are a cheap solution. They are pretty tall and might help support your stems if you plant them deeper. I have also used cottage cheese containers, the large size. The only things is you have to already have them on hand.

I have 50 of them in the little jiffy cardboard seed starters. Id plant them in deeper planters but I dont want to waist all that dirt... (Im cheap)

 

[lesa]

I can't believe you can't put them out in the dirt now....How cold is it at night? We aren't supposed to plant till end of May, here in zone 4- but I notice mother nature starts growing sunflowers way before that... I would start hardening them off and go for it- they won't last in the house. Let us know your progress...

 

[SarahFair]

I stuck them outside days ago
They were just getting in the way.

And I swear if this puppy tears up or steps on another one of my seedlings

Its like he knows which ones are my precious harder to sprout ones

 

[obsessed]

I think you could probably put them out now after some hardening off of course. I was driving yesterdat and I say a 3 ft sunflower in a ditch so mother nature has already started so should we.