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Sow seeds indoors

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    Count backwards from the last frost.

    The packet says weeks-before-frost. That date decides everything else.

  2. 2

    Use seed compost, not garden soil.

    Fine, low-nutrient, and free of the fungi that kill seedlings in trays.

  3. 3

    Sow at twice the seed’s depth.

    Tiny seeds barely covered, beans a knuckle deep. Water with a mist, not a jet.

  4. 4

    Give them light the moment they sprout.

    The brightest sill or a cheap grow light. Leggy pale seedlings are light-starved.

  5. 5

    Harden off for a week.

    Days outside, nights inside, gradually longer. Straight from sill to bed kills more seedlings than frost.

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