Starting seeds indoors before spring gives you a head start on the growing season and increases your chances of a healthy, productive garden. The key to success is providing the right environment: ...

Can you grow vegetables indoors? Sprawling pumpkin vines and trailing cucumber plants may be too large for indoor growing, ...

This bright and colorful, beginner-friendly bloomer loves an early indoor start — giving you a leg up on color before spring ...

If you’re itching to dig your hands into some soil, you don’t have to wait for spring. January is a great time to start certain seeds indoors and get a jump on the growing season. Picking the right ...

Indy Officinalis talks starting seeds indoors with grow lights. She troubleshoots stunted seedlings, shares when to put light on germinated seeds, and more! In Episode 202 of Mother Earth News and ...

1. Fill the tray with soil, plant a couple of seeds in each cell, sprinkle more soil lightly on top to cover the seeds, and spray with water until the soil all looks wet. 2. Make sure to label them! I ...

Many vegetable gardeners get a jump on the growing season by starting their own seeds indoors and February is the time to begin seeding cool-season crops such as onions, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, ...

If you're planning to start seeds indoors this season, you likely know you'll need a growing medium (packaged, sterile seed-starting mix is ideal), a sunny windowsill or grow lights and, of course, ...

It’s true that greenhouses and garden centers do a nice job of starting plants if you are not interested in babying seedlings along for 8 to 12 weeks. I do let them start some for me, but find that ...

For many vegetable gardeners, this is perhaps the best season of the year—seed catalog season! Since the first week of January, colorful seed catalogs have begun to appear in my mailbox just as links ...

Winter can feel like a dormant period where the garden is asleep and our hands stay out of the dirt. However, the online ...

These seeds — including carrots, beets, and sunflowers — just aren't worth the trouble of growing indoors during those tricky ...