Posted by Stephanie | Posted in Park Seed | Posted on 12-12-2007
Everyone knows that if you want to have a plentiful haul of vegetables, starting your seeds inside over the winter gives you good strong plants early in the spring and lets you maximize your growing season. This is especially helpful when growing indeterminate veggies (the ones that produce fruit throughout the season).
Another big advantage of germinating seeds indoors is increase germination rates. Many seeds are small and fragile and environmental conditions may keep them from producing, but if you start these seeds inside, in a controlled environment, you will greatly increase your chances of getting lots of strong healthy plants.
Now, you can be old-fashioned, starting in Dixie cups or a paper towel on top of the fridge, but many of the modern seed-starting kits will give you really high germination rates and they are lots of fun. Park Seed has plenty of neat seed-starting gadgets, our Park Starts systems work great and are very affordable, but the ever-popular Bio Dome seed starter (we can barely keep these in stock) is a durable tool that you can use season after season if you just replace the growing media sponges (they are super cheap). If you are planning on ordering one of our Bio Domes for this growing season, I would strongly suggest you get your orders in now. I was out in shipping this morning and saw stacks of them headed for the door already, probably for Christmas gifts.