Where do you start your garden seeds: Indoors .or. Outdoors?

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Where do you start your garden seeds: Indoors .or. Outdoors?
Hey Anon,





Both. Depending on the type of plant.





Indoors, Tomato for example, where you can watch them sprout, select the ones you want to promote to your garden, weed out the weak ones, and show the kids how it is done. Indoors, because you can start them early too, prior to the end of winter.





Some seeds like carrots, radishes, corn, are best started outside in beds or rows, then you thin them outside - they do not transplant well, and you need a lot of the plants, too many for jiffy pots.
Reply:Inside is best for seeds, but bulbs can be put right outside.
Reply:Both.





I start onions, leeks lettuce, cukes, zucchini, kale, broccoli, cabbages, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, chard, basil, celery and parsley indoors.





Arugula, spring mix, spinach, corn, beans, winter squash, garlic, radishes, beets, turnips, scallions, peas, carrots, potatoes, cilantro outdoors.
Reply:Outside, learn from wintersown.org or dot com have mine saved on the computer. But it lets plants start as mothernature intended almost. Lot less fuss I promise.
Reply:Indoors.
Reply:I never do anything indoors. If you plant them outside at the right time, you shouldn't have to sprout anything indoors. Even my cockscomb, which I have heard people say should be started indoors, I sow it right outside. Less of a shock to the plants, and less work for me. Sure they may bloom later, but does it really matter if its better for the plants?
Reply:Depends on the seeds you're planting. Beans, corn and carrots do not transplant well. Tomatoes, onions, peppers do. Cabbage family plants actually benefit from transplanting.
Reply:I do both, but not every year.
Reply:Depends on the seed. Beans do not transplant well so I start them outdoors. Tomatoes are fine if they're moved.





The Muse
Reply:Indoors, but mainly because 6 wks before I can plant outside I need to grow something. We get some long cold winters in OH