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Seed Starting
Guides and how-tos from the Garden Planner Pro blog on seed starting.
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Everyone Tells You to Throw Out Old Seed. Most of It Is Still Fine.
Seed does not expire the way the packet date suggests. Which kinds really do die in a year, which last a decade, and the ten-seed test that settles it.
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Start Your Seeds in This Order or Your Peppers Will Be Late
Onions and celery go first, squash last, and peppers earlier than most people think. Nine crops ranked by how many weeks before last frost to start them.
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9 Seeds Worth Starting in January (and 4 That Will Wreck Your Spring)
Nine crops slow enough to justify a January sowing, four that will be leggy wrecks by May, and the frost-date sum that tells you which January you mean.
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Your Seedlings Don't Need a $200 Grow Light. They Need It Six Inches Closer.
Full-spectrum, blurple, wattage claims: most of what grow light listings sell you is irrelevant to seedlings. The spec that matters, and why distance beats every other decision.
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When to Start Tomato Seeds Indoors (by Frost Date)
Start tomato seeds 6 to 8 weeks before your last frost, and not a day earlier. Starting too soon is the most common way to ruin a tomato season.
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