There are quite a few types of vegetables that benefit from an early start. Seeds from tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, celery, cabbage, and artichoke can be started indoors (or in a greenhouse) several weeks before your last frost. This helps extend your growing season and gives you healthy, established plants to put …
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Ready to Plant? Vegetable Transplant Care 101
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
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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! …