Gardening is a wonderful activity for your overall wellbeing. Not only does gardening serve as a great hobby, it is also a great form of physical activity, a great way to get vitamin D and it can provide you with high quality, fresh, unadulterated produce! With that being said, we all want to make sure we get the most out of our gardens every year - but how?

Starting Seed Early

Seed starting early and indoors is a great way to shake off those winter blues and get into some dirty business before the snow melts! Early seed starting isn’t just a great hobby to pass the time, it’s also a great way to optimize your garden planning.

Expand Your Productive Window Starting seed early increases your gardens productive window by several weeks, this allows you to reap more for what you sew!

Surefire Seedlings Starting seeds indoors allows us to ensure we have enough viable seedlings to plant outside. Sometimes seed does not sprout and if you wait until the ground is good for planting, dud seeds might set your season back even further.

Planning and Spacing Planting seedlings rather then seeds allows you to see your garden spacing a little bit better.

Reinforcements and Back Up Plan When Spring rolls around our furry friends are sometimes a little bit hungry which may draw them to your garden to forage for your newly planted seeds. Planting seedlings may eliminate the frustration of having new seeds dug up by squirrels and other small animals. A good rule of thumb is to plant a few more seedlings than you need incase your new plantings become someone’s lunch, you will have another hearty seedling to replace it and avoid delays in your harvest time.

Save Money and Trips to the Garden Center Starting your garden from seed may seem like a daunting task but it will save you money in the long run. A packet of seeds generally costs only a few dollars and can yield thousands of plants while buying seedlings from the garden center can cost upwards of $3 per plant or more depending on size. If you are planning a large garden, starting your own seed can really save your budget!

Make New Friends If you have extra seedlings, its always fun to share the wealth with neighbors, friends, or family. As the season goes on it gives you someone to share tips, tricks, and tasty produce with!

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