Things vary depending on specifically what you are growing and where you are located.

tj

With that information, I'd also encourage you to expand your post to include the Growing from Seed and the Winter Sowing forums. The 'garden' forum you chose is a default, catch-all forum for Houzz but the serious gardeners and gardening discussions take place in the garden-specific forums of what used to be GardenWeb. You'll get a lot more and better responses if you expand your readership! 😊

I like Charles Dowding's videos on youtube. He grows everything from seed and has an unfussy flexible approach.