A Way To Garden

from seed

How to grow garden plants from seeds, including vegetable seeds and herbs and annual flowers and vines. Browse the archive below for tips on topics like growing the perfect tomato, what grow lights and other seed-starting gear to use, when to sow peas or spinach or a second crop of beans, and even if you can grow Clematis from those fluffy seedheads it produces.

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don’t stop now! succession sowing of vegetables herbs, flowers, with niki jabbour

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plant a cutting garden, with jenny elliott of tiny hearts farm

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how to start seeds: 18 confidence-building tips

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why vegetable seedlings stretch and get spindly

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an eye for just the right plant, with wave hill’s louis bauer

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how to grow root crops, with daniel yoder of johnny’s seeds

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10 top tips for growing root vegetables

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direct sow or not, perennials from seed & more: q&a with ken druse

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pollinator plants to make room for, with uprising seeds’ brian campbell

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it’s edemental! gorgeous, delicious grains for the garden, with sarah kleeger

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seed-starting basics, a q&a with ken druse

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indoor growing under lights, with leslie halleck

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being ‘moreganic,’ plus growing diverse greens, with you grow girl’s gayla trail

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fighting dodder, propagating pineapple lily and more: q&a with ken druse

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8 heat-proof spinach substitutes and more unusual edibles, with niki jabbour

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success with brassicas (including brussels sprouts), with don tipping

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sunflowers, sweet peas, zinnias and more, with joseph tychonievich

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seed-shopping, plus growing eggplants and ‘dense sowing,’ with craig lehoullier

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old-fashioned hollyhocks plus gmo petunias, with joseph tychonievich

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mesclun 101, with kate spring of good heart farmstead

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native perennials from seed, woodchucks, hardening off seedlings: q&a with ken druse

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animals in compost heaps, slug control, rejuvenation pruning: q&a with ken druse

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straw-bale garden how-to, with craig lehoullier

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lessons from thomas jefferson’s vegetable garden, with peggy cornett