Starting Vegetables Indoors from Seed
Posted on Friday, October 08 @ 23:20:27 CDT | Topic: Gardening
It's a beautiful, chilly March day, and I'm dreaming about planting my garden this spring. While it's definitely still too cold to plant my garden, with a little planning and preparation, I can start my vegetable garden indoors to be ready to plant outdoors as soon as the last frost passes.
Generally you can start vegetables from seed four to ten weeks before the last frost. Where I live the last frost occurs in the middle of May.
Some vegetables transplant easier than others. Lettuce, beets, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, eggplant, onions, peppers, and tomatoes generally transplant well. Carrots, peas, corn, cucumbers, pumpkins, beans, and squash are harder to transplant, so it is not recommended to start these plants from seed.
Vegetables can be successfully started from seed if you keep them the correct temperature and provide them with the appropriate amounts of light and moisture.
You can make your own seed starting mix by combining equal parts of peat
moss, perlite, and vermiculite, which are all available at any garden supply
store. You can use just about any container that will hold soil to plant your
seeds, as long as you have drainage holes. You can buy seed starting trays
that makes
planting really easy. Just make sure your container is clean.
