My herb and vegetable garden in warmer days…. |
Learning seed starting basics isn’t hard, but it can be confusing for many novice gardeners. If you’d like to start a garden this year, you may already be eyeing the colorful racks of seed packages in the local garden center. Some seeds are started inside until the plant is large enough to be safely moved, or transplanted, into the ground outside. Other seeds must be planted or sown directly into the soil after it is warm enough for them to survive. The dates for these activities vary according to the types of seeds you’re growing and where you live, which can be very confusing for people new to gardening.
Seed starting last year. |
Jeanne Grunert is a certified Virginia Master Gardener and the author of several gardening books. Her garden articles, photographs, and interviews have been featured in The Herb Companion, Virginia Gardener, and Cultivate, the magazine of the National Farm Bureau. She is the founder of The Christian Herbalists group and a popular local lecturer on culinary herbs and herbs for health, raised bed gardening, and horticulture therapy.
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