Make sure your containers have drainage holes.
Starting garden plants indoors.
Even for crops that don t come from near the equator starting seeds indoors gives some plants a head start that brings earlier harvests and greater yield.
When the seedlings are a few inches tall transplant them to your designated garden spot.
A package of seeds will usually announce if the plant should be started indoors with instructions that include phrases such as start indoors 8 weeks before last expected frost date in your area each type of plant has its own particular needs for starting it indoors.
The same is true for many of our favorite annual flowers.
It generally doesn t drain well and may contain plant disease spores.
You can use recycled pots for example empty yogurt containers but be sure to poke holes in the bottom for draining so that your seeds are not over watered.
Corn while you shouldn t be in a rush to plant sweet corn in the garden you can get a jump start on the season by starting the seeds indoors.
But if you start too late the seedlings don t mature enough indoors.
In regions with short growing seasons starting seeds indoors allows you to gain a few precious weeks of growing time which can really make a difference when frost looms in the fall.
It is possible to start too soon if plants grow too large indoors they get stressed when they re transplanted.
In warmer regions starting seeds indoors can allow you to get in an extra round of crops especially cool weather crops before the heat of summer stifles growth.