Starting Seeds Indoors Winter Gardening Series

Some of the links below are affiliate links, which means I will earn a commission at no additional cost to you, if you click through and make a purchase. Regardless, I only link to products we use on our homestead or believe in.

Start your seeds indoors. Which plants do best as starts, seed starting chart timeline, and hardening off tipshttps://melissaknorris.com/?p=3554 Everything you need to extend your growing season and get started now!

I post new episodes every other Friday morning. You can subscribe via RSS and receive every episode for free.

Subscribe via ITUNES

Starting seeds indoors can greatly lengthen your growing season, but you'll want to use these tips to make sure your starts get off to their full potential. In today's episode we'll discuss:

Why you should start seeds indoors
How to figure out when to start your seeds
Why seed starting is the frugal option
Which plants you should not start as transplants
Seed starting container options, including homemade versions
Why and how to harden off your transplants

Resources:

Where to find your last frost date

A free seed starting chart from Gardening with Lorraine

How to make your own seed starting soil mix

How to make newspaper seed starting containers

8 ideas for frugal re-purposed seed starting containers

This is the grow light I use. It folds down compactly for storing and I was really pleased with how well it worked in our living room. Affordable grow light for indoor seed starting from our affiliate partner Amazon Hydrofarm JSV4 4-Foot Jump Start T5 Grow Light System