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How To Start Garden Seeds Indoors

March 15, 2020 //  by Tawra//  16 Comments

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How To Start Garden Seeds Indoors

How To Start Seeds Indoors

(This post about starting seeds indoors for your garden originally posted on the old blog in March 2008.)

We started planting seeds for the garden the other day. I like to start my seeds indoors so that I have plants that are ready to go as soon as the garden season starts.

Containers for Starting Seeds

I used an old cake pan to set the little cups in. I did put a cardboard down so they wouldn’t tip over on the grooves.
Since we recently moved, I didn’t have a huge collection of covered deli trays like I usually use for starting seeds so I bought some little Dixie type cups. It cost $2 for 100 cups so it wasn’t a bad deal. I punched a hole in the bottom of each cup to give drainage for the plants.

Note the ice pick sticking up out of the top of the cups. I put a bunch together and just jammed it down through about ten of them all at once to punch the holes.

dixie cups for starting seeds indoors

I planted things like tomatoes in the Dixie cups. That way I don’t have to move them to larger containers before I put them in the ground in my garden.

I put the rest of the plants in the ten or so deli trays I did have. My lettuce is already up and ready to go outside! Yeah! At $1.39 for a head of lettuce, I’m happy about that!

I had a lot of “help” starting seeds so it did go slowly and, as you can see, I felt like I was one step closer to death that day. :-)

david helping me start seeds indoors

starting seeds is easy and quick!

I forced myself to sit up and get it done even though starting seeds was the last thing I wanted to do that day. I’m glad I did it because now I have some great starts going and my garden is going to be happy!

Happy Planting!
-Tawra

Here’s a video we made showing an easy way to recycle using free containers to start seeds indoors!

 

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  1. grandma

    March 9, 2012 at 7:35 am

    I really hate this part of the blog.
    You talk about starting plants while I am looking at snowbanks and 2′ of snow in the yard. Can’t even see my raised beds yet.
    Can’t plant anything much until the beginning of June.
    But I do like coming here and reading about plans for other peoples gardens.
    I might put potatoes in again this year everything else takes too much work and I just can’t do it. Although my grandchildren will be here so I might do a few rows of carrots and radishes. They loved to pick them the last time they came.
    Oh to dream of spring.

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  2. donnab

    March 2, 2015 at 11:58 am

    I have such limited space, does anyone have a recommendation for what herbs I can just grow on the window sill? I have nice deep ones, so narrow containers would work for me.

    thank you —

    donna b.

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    • Jill

      March 2, 2015 at 1:32 pm

      Mint, sage, thyme, rosemary, basil. Depending on how much room you have you can do lemon balm, chives, parsley,oregano,bay. Pick the ones you will use the most and think small. Most herbs spread and grow a lot so you don’t need a lot of plants or starts.

      Reply
    • Jill

      March 2, 2015 at 1:45 pm

      Forgot cilantro too.

      Reply
  3. Susan Jackson

    March 19, 2020 at 10:50 am

    oh my goodness! With a family of 7 here this is genius Tawra!! thank you I will be doing this instead of buying peat pots at more than $5 for 18 of them.

    Reply
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