Growing plants from seed is so rewarding! Seed starting is a great way to bid farewell to winter and begin welcoming the beauty of spring.
Whether you start seeds indoors or outdoors, you are sure to love the benefits of growing from seed. Our helpful content can even offer tips on common seed starting issues, like dealing with leggy seedlings.
Enjoy the calming stress relief and the sense of accomplishment at creating thriving young plants!
Once you get started growing plants from seed, you will love to pick up on new techniques, new varieties, and of course, saving your own seeds for trading or future crops!
Happy Gardening!
Sunflowers seem to be one of the cheeriest flowers in the garden! They grow beautifully alongside vegetables and other flowers. Try starting sunflower seeds indoors to get a jump start on your flower garden this year! So many different varieties of sunflowers look gorgeous and make it difficult to choose just one to plant. I…
My sister once told me spinach was tough to germinate. I think it psyched me out that year, but this year my daughter planted spinach seeds and it’s all good. Turns out my 10-year-old is a natural at growing spinach from seed! We decided to grow spinach from seed in tier planters we got at…
Growing fruit from fruit scraps like peach pits or lemon seeds is so exciting to me. It’s actually one of my favorite gardening things to do in the off-season. Learn how to grow a peach tree from seed to enjoy this exciting journey. Starting a peach tree from seed is so easy and I’ve had…
Ah, delicious, juicy watermelon—without seeds! I’ve always wondered where seedless watermelons come from and how you get seedless watermelon seeds in the first place. Turns out it’s a fairly complicated scientific process for the amateur gardener. Still, I’m super interested so I decided to dig into it a bit. So many questions come to mind…
So much of the fun of gardening is planting seeds to see what grows! We discovered it’s so easy learning how to plant apple seeds, even if you don’t know just what kind of apple tree you’ll get, or if you’ll even get any edible apples! Growing an apple tree from seed is an easy…
For some reason, growing cantaloupe from seed to the point of actually harvesting one feels like a major achievement! Our girls love fruit, so it was a great experience growing cantaloupe from seed in our garden. Also known as rock melon or muskmelon, cantaloupes are known for their sweet orange flesh and fragrance, along with…
Like cantaloupe, honeydew, the green flesh melon, tends to be another favorite fresh fruit to enjoy. Growing honeydew melon from seed may seem out there, but it’s entirely possible and easy to do! Growing up, I never really thought about growing honeydew. My mom always grew cantaloupe and watermelons. But, in a stroke of luck,…
Growing fruits and veggies from grocery store produce has become a fun hobby for us when we get bored before spring starts! One of my favorite experiences so far was learning how to grow kiwi from seeds of yummy kiwifruit we had in the fridge. Growing kiwi seeds proved to be easy, fun, and pretty…
Who doesn’t love the delicate, daisy-like flowers of chamomile, and especially the calming tea? Growing chamomile for the first time in our 2021 garden was one of the easiest things we did. I’ll happily share my best tips on how to grow chamomile from seed. Chamomile seeds are tiny yet they produce robust little plants…
For years, I’ve loved starting seeds indoors every spring to fill out a backyard garden. Recently and also in the past I have used Miracle-Gro® Potting Mixes potting soil to get our seeds started. I’ll give you my honest thoughts on this soil as a busy mama backyard gardener. Over the years, I’ve noticed Miracle…