Starting Garden Plants Indoors

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Starting garden plants indoors.

If you start them indoors they can spend more time in your garden flowering instead of maturing enough to flower. But if you start too late the seedlings don t mature enough indoors. The same is true for many of our favorite annual flowers. Even for crops that don t come from near the equator starting seeds indoors gives some plants a head start that brings earlier harvests and greater yield.

A package of seeds will usually announce if the plant should be started indoors with instructions that include phrases such as start indoors 8 weeks before last expected frost date in your area each type of plant has its own particular needs for starting it indoors. You can use recycled pots for example empty yogurt containers but be sure to poke holes in the bottom for draining so that your seeds are not over watered. The national gardening association says you can start corn plants indoors in pots. It is possible to start too soon if plants grow too large indoors they get stressed when they re transplanted.

When the seedlings are a few inches tall transplant them to your designated garden spot. In warmer regions starting seeds indoors can allow you to get in an extra round of crops especially cool weather crops before the heat of summer stifles growth. In regions with short growing seasons starting seeds indoors allows you to gain a few precious weeks of growing time which can really make a difference when frost looms in the fall.