Seeding Flowers Indoors: An Inexpensive Way to a Beautiful Summer Garden
Article by: Debbie Rodgers
Every year you plan , A Rather Shady Affair that THIS will be the year you have pots , Solar Residential Outdoor Lighting is Becoming the Product of Choice for Millions of Consumers and pots , Garden for Birds #3 of lush plants , Hills and Holes: Not Part of Your Landscaping Design? on your balcony or deck. , Blower Fans Then you visit your local , Keep It Tidy! Your Home Outdoors Will Look Its Very Best When You Use Good Storage Methods! nursery in the spring , The Indoor Garden: Plants that Clean the Air and reality hits -- the cost for your fantasy is just outrageous! Sound familiar?
But you can have the planters of your dreams at a fraction of the cost and with a choice of varieties far beyond what the local garden , Tulip Divisions - Tulips and Their Identities center offers. How? Start your own flower , The Cottage Garden seeds now.
If you've never grown from seeds , Floral Garden and Landscape Toupees indoors before, it's best to begin with just a few types. Easy starters: Trailing lobelia and petunias make a bright and simple garden , How to Choose a Perfect Wood Porch Swing for sunny spots. Licorice plant , Keep It Tidy! Your Home Outdoors Will Look Its Very Best When You Use Good Storage Methods! and dwarf nasturtiums are also attractive.
Once you've decided on your plants, , Earthworms in the Garden/Earthworm Facts you must know two things to determine when the seeds , Hills and Holes: Not Part of Your Landscaping Design? should be started: the last frost date for your area, and the time required before transplanting.
- The last frost date is the date beyond which there is a low chance (usually about 10%) of temperatures , Dog Days of Summer at or below the freezing mark. This is important because many traditional plants , For Lighting Fixtures and Landscape Lighting Get Solar Power Installed for hanging baskets are tender, that is, they will not survive when frozen. You may already know what the frost date is for your area. If not ask gardening , The Flower Drying Game - Part 3: An Affordable Home Flower-Press neighbors or your local gardening , Introduction to Hydroponics and Tips for Its Maintenance center. If you are in the USA, visit http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/documentlibrary/freezefrost/Spring32F_hires.jpg for information , Hills and Holes: Not Part of Your Landscaping Design? from the national Climatic Data Center.
- The time required before transplanting is different for each type of flower. , Grow Herbs in your Garden for Pleasure and Profit You'll see this listed in seed , Dandelion: Miracle Gift from Mother Earth catalogs or on the seed , Bare Root Roses, What To Look For When Buying packet. For example, a packet might tell you to "start indoors , Choosing The Appropriate Tree For Your Garden 6-8 weeks before last frost date." Some seeds , Choosing The Appropriate Tree For Your Garden such as nasturtiums, zinnias, or cosmos may be sown directly outside , Choosing the Right Mower but if you have to wait after the danger of a frost has passed, you may want to get a jump on spring , The Garden Beckons by starting those inside , Keep It Tidy! Your Home Outdoors Will Look Its Very Best When You Use Good Storage Methods! too.
Licorice plants , Cheap Pond Liners and geraniums need 12 weeks to sprout from seed. , Cheap Pond Liners So if my last frost date is May 15th, I'll want to start them around the last week of February. Petunias, impatiens and lobelia require 10-12 weeks, so I would start them around the first of March. Morning glories, which make a beautiful , Why a Flower Bed Should Look Bare When You First Plant It privacy fence from a plain piece of latticework, need six weeks from start to transplant, but can't be put outside , Choosing The Appropriate Tree For Your Garden until two weeks after the last frost date. This would mean starting them indoors , Blower Fans about mid-April. I'd start nasturtiums and zinnias about then too.
Your goal is to promote germination (with heat , Making a New Lawn From Seed or Sod and water) and seedling growth (with light) while preventing your seedlings' chief enemy, "damping-off" (with air , Commercial Ponds circulation and proper drainage). Here are some tips , How to Build a Pond: Basic Considerations for successful seed , Bird Baths in Your Yard growing.
- Use plastic , Types of Annuals in the Garden - Tender, Hardy and Half-Hardy containers, about 2" deep, fairly wide and with multiple drainage holes. Growers' cell packs are ideal but you can also use yogurt or cottage cheese containers as long as you sanitize them with a mild bleach solution (one part bleach to nine parts water) for 15 minutes and then punch several holes in the bottoms.
- Use commercial seed-starting mix. It's sterilized and contains the necessary food , Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening and Tips for Its Maintenance to aid germination. You might also want to try using a product , Tulip Divisions - Garden Tulips and Their Identities specially formulated to prevent damping-off.
- Plant seeds , Tulip Divisions - Garden Tulips and Their Identities sparingly. You'll have to thin them anyway. Some growers plant , Patio Chair Covers only two seeds , Granite Flexible Preformed Rock Ponds per cell pot. , Dandelion: Miracle Gift from Mother Earth If you're planting in flat , You Can Grow Your Own Herb Garden - Part 4 trays, place seeds , Garden for Birds #3 1/2" to 1" (1 to 2.5 cm) apart, depending on the seed , Floral Garden and Landscape Toupees size, and space the rows 1 1/2" to 2" (3-5 cm) apart. Make a depression in the soil , Grow Herbs in your Garden for Pleasure and Profit with your finger or a pencil and plant , Zucchini: A Power House of Nutrition the seed , The Omega Garden, The Ideal Commercial Hydroponic System or For The Indoor Grower about three times as deep as its diameter. If the packet says the seed , Types of Annuals in the Garden - Tender, Hardy and Half-Hardy requires light , Gypsum Valuable Input for Agriculture to germinate, then put it just on the surface of the soil. , The Cottage Garden
- Set the containers in a water-filled tray. This allows the pots , Gypsum Valuable Input for Agriculture to draw water , The Cottage Garden from the bottom without disturbing the seeds. , Landscape Lighting Cover tray and pots , Invisible Fences with plastic , Hills and Holes: Not Part of Your Landscaping Design? to help hold moisture , You Can Grow Your Own Herb Garden - Part 4 and heat. , Hammock Chairs - Relax in Style
- Place the entire set-up on a heat , Floral Garden and Landscape Toupees source between 75 - 85° F (24 - 29° C). Although a heat , Solar Residential Outdoor Lighting is Becoming the Product of Choice for Millions of Consumers mat designed for this purpose is ideal, you can also use the top of a fridge, or a spot near a radiator or space heater.
- Once the seeds , Types of Annuals in the Garden - Tender, Hardy and Half-Hardy have germinated, remove the plastic , Gypsum Valuable Input for Agriculture and put the pots , Patio Chair Covers (with the water , The Cottage Garden tray) near a light , Choosing The Appropriate Tree For Your Garden source at a reduced temperature. , Wooden Garden Benches Good light , Life's a Beach--A Shore Theme in your Outdoor Space is crucial at this point to ensure good growth. Fluorescent shop lights , Wooden Garden Benches within a few inches of the tops of the seedlings are perfectly suited. You can also try a sunny south window , Garden for Birds #3 but ideally the light , Bird Baths in Your Yard should be on the plants , Free Landscaping Ideas - How To Correctly a Tree for 16 hours out of each 24-hour period. In my climate, , Solar Residential Outdoor Lighting is Becoming the Product of Choice for Millions of Consumers we just don't have 16 hours of daylight this time of year! Seedlings respond best to daytime temperatures , Colorado Blue Spruce And Lush Red Roses of 60 - 70° F (16 - 21°C) and night temperatures , Invisible Fences of 50 - 60° F (10 - 16°C).
- Here's where it becomes critical to prevent damping-off. One way to do this is to let an electric , Blower Fans fan blow gently across the surface of the soil , Life's a Beach--A Shore Theme in your Outdoor Space during daylight hours. There are also specially formulated products , Tulip Divisions - Garden Tulips and Their Identities on the market that can be applied to the surface of the soil , Texas Drought Well Documented in the Past when you are planting seeds , Hammock Chairs - Relax in Style that will help stop damping-off from developing.
- When the seedlings have developed their first set of true leaves (not the round little germination leaves), pull all but one plant , Granite Flexible Preformed Rock Ponds per cell. It's hard, I know, to pull up living plants , Indoor Waterfalls but it's necessary to prevent overcrowding that will kill all of them.
- When the seedlings have developed their second set of true leaves, start watering them (from the bottom) with fertilizer diluted to quarter strength.
- A week or 10 days before you plan , Colorado Blue Spruce And Lush Red Roses to plant , Earthworms in the Garden/Earthworm Facts them outside, , Landscape Lighting start "hardening off" the tender seedlings. Stop fertilizing, and cut the amount of water , A Rather Shady Affair in half. If possible, keep them in a cooler space inside , Build A Simple Planter Box and start introducing them to the direct sun , Grow Herbs in your Garden for Pleasure and Profit and fluctuating temperatures , Indoor Waterfalls of the outdoors. , Build A Simple Planter Box Begin by setting the trays outside , Invisible Fences for an hour in the mid-morning or mid-afternoon ad gradually lengthen the time to several hours. Don't put them out in heavy rain or cold, , Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening and Tips for Its Maintenance strong wind and be sure to bring them indoors , Landscape Lighting at night.
Follow these steps and you'll have a bounty of young, strong plants , Solar Residential Outdoor Lighting is Becoming the Product of Choice for Millions of Consumers to fill your hanging baskets and pots. , Granite Flexible Preformed Rock Ponds This year, you'll have the planters of your dreams!About The Author
Debbie Rodgers owns and operates Paradise Porch, , The Garden Beckons and is dedicated to helping people create outdoor , Dandelion: Miracle Gift from Mother Earth living spaces that nurture and enrich them. Visit her on the web , Wooden Garden Benches at www.paradiseporch.com and get a free report on "Eight easy ways to create privacy in your outdoor , Garden for Birds #3 space". Mail to debbie@paradiseporch.com
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