A package of seeds will usually announce if the plant should be started indoors with instructions that include phrases such as start indoors 8 weeks before last expected frost date in your area each type of plant has its own particular needs for starting it indoors.
Starting garden plants indoors.
It generally doesn t drain well and may contain plant disease spores.
But if you start too late the seedlings don t mature enough indoors.
If you start them indoors they can spend more time in your garden flowering instead of maturing enough to flower.
When the seedlings are a few inches tall transplant them to your designated garden spot.
Even for crops that don t come from near the equator starting seeds indoors gives some plants a head start that brings earlier harvests and greater yield.
It is possible to start too soon if plants grow too large indoors they get stressed when they re transplanted.
If possible don t use garden soil to start seeds indoors.
The same is true for many of our favorite annual flowers.
Corn while you shouldn t be in a rush to plant sweet corn in the garden you can get a jump start on the season by starting the seeds indoors.
In warmer regions starting seeds indoors can allow you to get in an extra round of crops especially cool weather crops before the heat of summer stifles growth.
Make sure your containers have drainage holes.