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Pressed Soil Blocks

Stick to your resolution to rely less on plastic in your gardening activities and use pressed soil blocks as your “pots” instead. Save yourself from having to clean and find storage space for a bunch of plastic trays and tubs that you won’t use until next indoor seed sowing season. With soil blocks, you plant ...

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Seed Starting: Is It Right for You?

January and February are the months where you see a lot of blog and social media posts urging you to “Let’s get ready for seed starting!” I’ve written posts just like that—HERE and HERE and HERE. However this post is not that post. Instead, let’s consider some reasons why you might bypass the seed sowing ...

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Seed Starting Part 3: As Seedlings Grow Indoors

In two previous posts on starting seeds I discussed how to prep for the seed-starting process (Part 1) and what to do as you get down to sow your seeds indoor (Part 2). Now that your seeds are sown, let’s discuss a few tasks that happen between now and the time your seedlings can head ...

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Seed Starting Part 2: When You Sow

In a previous post on starting seeds I discussed how to prep for the seed-starting process. Now that you’ve gathered your clean containers and your seed-starting mix, let’s move on to what to do when you actually sow those seeds. Read Your Seed Packet Seed packets are invaluable pieces of information. They may have a ...

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Seed Starting Part 1: Before You Sow

Considering starting seeds for your vegetable garden this year? If you’re one of the millions of people who took up gardening as the pandemic wore on into its first month of lockdown, you may have begun your gardening experience on fly. This year, however, you have the opportunity to be a bit more planful about ...

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