How Many Plants Do I Really Need? When starting seeds for a vegetable garden, it’s easy to get swept away in our excitement and plant dozens of each variety. Two months later we’re staring at a sea of plants that need to be transplanted, and there’s not enough room in …
Month: March 2018
How Many Plants Do I Really Need?
Thursday, March 29th, 2018
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Yes You Can Grow Perennials From Seed
Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
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Yes You Can Grow Perennials from Seed Problem: Your vision is vast, but your budget is tiny. Solution: Create the large swaths of flowering perennials that fulfill your garden dreams without spending a fortune, by choosing varieties that grow easily from seed. Herbaceous perennial plants—those that live from year to …
Buy seeds, Not Plants
Saturday, March 17th, 2018
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Buy Seeds, Not Plants Sometimes growing from seed is not just an option—it’s a necessity. The spectacle of a cilantro plant in a 4-inch pot with the …
Pre-Soaking And Scarifying Seeds
Friday, March 16th, 2018
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Pre-Soaking and Scarification To simulate the processes that seeds go through in nature, we sometimes need to take an extra step to help them germinate. We talked about Stratification, or cold treatment in an earlier post. Here we’ll discuss two other methods: pre-soaking and scarification. Scarification No, it isn’t about …
Pre-Treating Seeds To Promote Germination
Friday, March 16th, 2018
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Pre-treating Your Seeds When we start seeds for our garden, we’re attempting to duplicate the effects of nature. Many seeds in the wild go through a cold period or are nibbled by squirrels or tumbled around in rough soil. If we try to germinate these types of seeds without recreating …
Germination Station – Lighting Your Seedlings
Friday, March 16th, 2018
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Germination Station – DIY Indoor Seed Starting Putting a few pots of seeds in a sunny South-facing window may be fine, but for those wanting to start enough seeds for a larger garden, we need a Germination Station! The simplest method is to buy a heavy-duty wire shelving unit. This …
What You Need Before You Seed
Friday, March 16th, 2018
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What You Need Before You Seed – Choosing Containers A trip to any garden center or gardening website can be overwhelming with all the choices offered. Should you start seeds in trays, peat pots, jiffy pellets, or plastic pots? Should you make your own compostable pots with a nifty tool …
10 Best Seed Germinating Ideas
Friday, March 16th, 2018
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10 Best Seed Germinating Ideas We all have visions of lush gardens dancing in our heads while looking at seeds, and it’s so much fun to pick all the varieties we’ll grow that we can forget there’s work to be done between opening the seed packets and harvesting our bounty! …
Everwilde Farm’s Blog
Sunday, March 11th, 2018
From sowing to growing! Look for lots of tips and helpful information about making your seeds germinate, grow and produce!