Starter Plants

Starter plants offer the perfect head start for gardeners of all skill levels, arriving healthy, well-established, and ready to thrive in their new home with minimal effort. Skip the seeds and jump straight to the good part — watching your garden flourish with vigorous, robust plants that are primed for growth from the moment they arrive.

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  • Pumpkin Starter Plant — photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Pumpkin Starter Plant

    Set this vine out and you'll be cutting hard-shelled pumpkins for pies, porches and jack-o'-lanterns roughly three and a half months later.Timing is everything for Halloween pumpkins in Alabama: count back about 100 days from when you want them, which puts planting in late...
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  • Red Seed Potatoes — photo: Scott Bauer, USDA ARS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Red Seed Potatoes

    Plant these certified seed potatoes in late winter and dig smooth, thin-skinned red potatoes for boiling and potato salad by late May.This is sold as certified seed potatoes, not as a rooted seedling: cut larger pieces so each has one or two eyes, let...
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  • Pole Bean Starter Plant — photo: Ruth Hartnup from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Pole Bean Starter Plant

    Start picking long, tender snap beans about two months after planting, and keep the vines producing until frost if you harvest often.Beans are normally direct-sown, and this transplant exists mainly to beat cool spring soil and to get past the crows, doves and cutworms...
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  • Parsnip Starter Plant — photo: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Parsnip Starter Plant

    Set these young cells out early and dig long, sweet, nutty white roots after the first hard frosts, roughly four months from planting.Parsnips are a taproot crop that genuinely resents disturbance, so this is sold as a young multi-seeded cell to be planted out...
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  • Yellow Onion Starter Sets — photo: Colin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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      Yellow Onion Starter Sets

      Plant these short-day starts over winter and lift firm, sweet yellow bulbs for cooking and storage in late May or early June.Yellow onions in Alabama must be short-day or intermediate-day varieties; long-day northern types simply will not bulb this far south and are the...
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    • White Onion Starter Sets — photo: Colin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        White Onion Starter Sets

        Set these short-day starts out in winter and pull sweet, mild white bulbs for fresh eating and salsa by late May or June.Onions bulb on day length, not on age, and this is the single most common onion failure in the South: a long-day...
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      • Okra Starter Plant — photo: Earth100, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Okra Starter Plant

        Pick your first tender pods about two months after planting, then keep cutting every day or two right through the heat until frost.Okra is a hot-weather crop that stalls in cold ground, so wait until soil is above 65 degrees rather than rushing it...
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      • Napa Cabbage Starter Plant — photo: Bayartai, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Napa Cabbage Starter Plant

        Cut dense, sweet, crinkled heads for kimchi, slaws and stir-fries roughly two months after you set these transplants into cool spring or fall soil.Napa cabbage is far touchier about timing than regular cabbage: a spring planting set out too late runs straight to flower...
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      • Mizuna Starter Plant — photo: Uo3rt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Mizuna Starter Plant

        Start snipping feathery, mildly peppery mizuna leaves for salads and stir-fries about three weeks after transplanting, and keep cutting the plant for months.Mizuna is the most heat- and cold-tolerant of the Asian greens, shrugging off frost into the low 20s under a row cover...
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      • Mesclun Salad Mix Starter Plant — photo: Patrice Semeria, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Mesclun Salad Mix Starter Plant

        Cut your first bowl of tender mixed baby salad greens about three weeks after planting, then keep cutting for six weeks or more.Mesclun is a mixed cell of lettuces, mustards and arugula meant to be harvested as baby leaf, so plant the whole clump...
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      • Malabar Spinach Starter Plant — photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Malabar Spinach Starter Plant

        Harvest thick, glossy, spinach-flavored leaves all through the worst of an Alabama summer, starting roughly six weeks after you set this vine out.This is the crop that takes over when true spinach quits: real spinach bolts here by early May, while Malabar spinach only...
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      • Luffa Gourd Starter Plant — photo: Tomas nevado / Jerry Crimson Mann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Luffa Gourd Starter Plant

        Grow your own sponges and tender young gourds from this vigorous vine, with edible fruit by midsummer and mature sponges to peel by fall.Luffa needs every warm day zone 8a can give it, so get transplants out as soon as frost danger passes and...
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      • Leek Starter Plant — photo: Amada44, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Leek Starter Plant

        Plant these young leeks now and you'll be pulling thick, mild white shanks for soups and braises in about three to four months.Leeks are slow but forgiving, and Alabama's mild winters let them sit in the ground for months without bolting. Set the transplants...
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      • Kale Starter Plant — photo: Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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        Kale Starter Plant

        Start cutting tender leaves in about eight weeks and keep harvesting all fall and winter, with frost making every leaf noticeably sweeter.Kale is at its best as an Alabama fall and winter crop, standing through hard freezes and producing long after the tomatoes are...
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      • Jerusalem Artichoke Tubers — photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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          Jerusalem Artichoke Tubers

          Dig crisp, nutty sunchoke tubers after the first fall frost, harvesting from a tall sunflower relative that returns every single year.Sunchokes are supplied as dormant tubers rather than seedlings, and they are a true perennial that comes back reliably and spreads vigorously, so give...
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        • Jalapeno Starter Plant — photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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          Jalapeno Starter Plant

          Pick firm, dark green jalapenos about eleven weeks after planting, with a single plant easily producing dozens of pods through summer.Jalapenos are among the most dependable warm-season crops in Alabama, but they need warm soil at planting or they sit and sulk for weeks....
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        • Hot Pepper Starter Plant — photo: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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          Hot Pepper Starter Plant

          Harvest your first hot peppers in roughly eleven weeks, then keep picking heavier and hotter fruit right up to the November frost.Hot peppers love the Alabama summer and actually build more heat under dry, sunny stress than under constant coddling. Plant into warm soil,...
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        • Habanero Starter Plant — photo: Fir0002, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
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          Habanero Starter Plant

          Pick fiery orange lanterns roughly three months after planting from a pepper that only gets better in deep Alabama summer heat.Habaneros need more heat and a longer season than common peppers, so set them out late enough that soil is genuinely warm and they...
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        • Ground Cherry Starter Plant — photo: User:Carstor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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          Ground Cherry Starter Plant

          Gather sweet, pineapple-flavored husked berries off the ground about ten weeks after planting, and expect a heavy crop until frost.Ground cherries thrive in Alabama heat and sprawl wide, so give each plant room or a low cage to keep the fruit off wet soil....
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        • Green Onion / Scallion Starter Plant — photo: Evan-Amos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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          Green Onion / Scallion Starter Plant

          Pull slim, mild scallions within about two months, and keep replanting the bases for a cutting supply nearly year round here.Scallions are one of the easiest crops in Alabama, tolerating both light frost and moderate heat, and they can be planted across a long...
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