It’s time to start thinking about those beautiful fall and winter flowers, from pansies and sweet pea to viola and…
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Seed Starting Archives - Official Blog of Park Seed
Plenty of vegetables, such as cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts, thrive in fall gardens. In fact, they produce…
Are the seedlings you have started indoors now quite tall, rather pale, and/or downright spindly? Are they even beginning to bend…
Everyone loves Jiffy Pots! These humble peat-pot containers, completely biodegradable, have been the home gardener’s best friend f0r decades. Many…
Starting the garden from seed is always economical, but you can make the most of your gardening time and money this season by following five easy tips: label every seed you sow to prevent misidentification; choose seed varieties that are on sale or part of money-saving collections; build a safety net into your transplant schedule to prevent losing plants to late frosts; harden off seedlings before transplanting them; and continue to sow seeds indoors year-round.
With most vegetable seeds there isn’t too much argument about when to start them. With bean seeds, though, the debate…
While some seeds are best started indoors, before spring thaw, there are plenty of varieties that can be direct-sown in the…
Park’s Bio Dome family welcomes several new members this season! Meet the Mega 8-Cell Bio Dome, the One-step Bio Dome,…
When I was a new gardener, I always wanted to start seeds on New Year’s Day. It seemed so symbolic,…
Until recently, Calibrachoa was protected by patents and could not be sold as seed. But with the arrival of the…