Don’t waste your money on expensive seed starting kits! You can pull containers out of the recycle bin and use them for starting seeds. It’s free, easy, and works!

Starting seeds indoors can get expensive really quickly. Over the years, I have managed to use recycled containers for germinating seeds, potting up seedlings, gardening, and growing food indoors for practically free!

Here in New England, we have a very short growing season, so a lot of our slow growing vegetables need to get a head start indoors in the early spring.

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Microgreens are young edible vegetables and herbs harvested within weeks of sprouting. The tender greens are very flavorful and nutrient dense.

Use these tips and discover how easy it is to grow microgreens indoors so you can have a continual harvest of fresh, healthy greens.

What Are Microgreens?

The term “microgreens” is a generic term used to describe any edible green that is still in the immature state of growth.

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Growing your own vegetable garden transplants from seed is pretty straightforward, but sometimes you can run into problems. Here’s how to identify and resolve some of the most common seed starting problems you may run into when starting seeds indoors.

There is a special sense of fulfillment when you see the plants you have nurtured from tiny seeds grow and produce bountiful harvests. If you follow these 10 Steps to Starting Seedlings Indoors and you will be off to a good beginning.

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A soil block is a cube of lightly compressed soil and nutrients that will grow one seedling. When the plant is ready to be transplanted, the entire block is planted into the soil. No root mangling will reduce transplant shock.

When I first began gardening, I purchased transplants from a local nursery and had a difficult time getting the seedlings out of their individual cells. Often times the plants were root bound and suffered from transplant shock because of my mangling.

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To direct sow your seeds just means to plant your seeds outdoors in the garden where it will grow instead of starting the seeds indoors in containers under lights.

If you live in a warm climate, you can direct sow almost any crop. Those of us who garden in colder areas either begin sowing seeds indoors under lights or purchase seedlings from a green house that can be transplanted into the garden after all danger of frost is past.

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