Starting Seeds Indoors
Start Your Own Seeds
There are many advantages to starting your own seeds indoors. You can satisfy your need for green when it’s cold and snowy outside, experiement with unusual or heirloom varieties rarely available as transplants, and grow a large number of plants at relatively little expense.
Planting season is just around the corner, and most of you have been preparing your soil. So, it’s time to get the plants going so the season, can have a good harvest.
The shorter days and lower light levels in winter make it difficult to grow seedlings indoors without supplemental light. Windowsill-grown seedlings get weak and leggy. Consider investing in an indoor light system, either purchased or homemade, to add the extra illumination your seedlings need to grow strong and stocky.
You can buy or make a small hot house, to start your seeds in. There are also, warming pads that can give your seeds the warmth needed to germinate and grow.Starting indoors, give the plants an edge on the growing season and develops them well enough to survive once in the ground. Healthy plants are important when it comes to good gardening. Hey, have a great season.











Or…
you can go with the WinterSowing technique and have more sprouts than you know what to do with:
http://www.wintersown.org/
and
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/wtrsow/
Happy growing!
Comment by Tina — February 16, 2008 @ 2:35 pm