DIY Seed-Starting Mixes: Which Ones Work and Which to Skip
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It’s seed shopping season, and if you’re like me, you’ve been leafing through garden catalogs and dreaming about your spring garden. Although it’s still miserably cold this time of year where I live, winter is the perfect season for garden planning, including figuring out which seeds you can safely start indoors now. Starting seeds indoors is one of the most satisfying parts of gardening, until your seedlings flop over, stall out, or never germinate at all. A lot of that frustration comes down to the “soil” you used, because seed-starting media is less about feeding plants and more about managing moisture, oxygen, and cleanliness.
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