Sure you can purchase veggie or flower starts, but it’s so satisfying and fun to plant flowers and vegetables from seeds. The idea has been percolating around in your head for a while, but you have no clue how tostart a garden from seeds. Don’t worry, we’re here to help. Read ...
Whether Starting Seeds or Using Transplants, Lettuce Is Easy to GrowQuestion: I'm going to grow lettuce in my garden this year, and Iwonder if there are any...Walliser, Jessica
You may see some seed packets instruct you not to bury the seeds but instead apply a bit of peat moss or vermiculite to the top, allowing light to shine on the seeds. Lettuce seeds are one of the most common types to need light exposure to grow. Sea Buckthorn seedlings sprouting after ...
In this video, part ofFine Gardening‘s How to Start a Vegetable Garden series, associate editor Danielle Sherry demonstrates two ways to sow seeds directly in the garden: planting in hills (for pumpkins and squash) and planting in troughs (radishes, carrots, and lettuce).Watch the video…...
Water from the bottom up by watering into the tray that holds your pots. Use enough water so that the soil is the dampness of a wrung-out sponge. Too much water can drown the seeds. Here’s the value of a tray or those biodegradable pots. They can wick the moisture up at a steady...
The selection of vegetable seeds you can buy is much larger than the transplants available at the nursery or garden center. What seeds are best to start indoors Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, lettuce, chard, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and other cole crops are pretty easy to transplan...
I put the rest of the plants in the ten or so deli trays I did have.My lettuce is already up and ready to go outside! Yeah! At $1.39 for a head of lettuce, I’m happy about that! I had a lot of “help” starting seeds so it did go slowlyand, as you can see,I felt lik...
2. Create a garden plan online and get reminders.My favoriteonline vegetable gardening softwareisGrowVeg. It is very easy to use and provides some great visuals when to specifically plant seeds and transplant your seedlings outdoors, which you can see below. ...
Fast forward a week and here’s my progress so far. Lettuce, peas, radishes, cucumbers, and corn are already rockin’ and rollin’ and I expect more to follow suit really soon. This means that on the next un-rainy day here in Oregon, I need to get outside and get my garden boxes...
6 years: Brassicas, carrot, celeriac, celery, lettuce, pumpkin and squash If you’re unsure whether seed is good or not, carry out a simple germination test. Sow a test sample of seeds into plug trays or pots, contrasting how many seeds are sown with how many seedlings appear ...