Nothing but Miracle-Gro Organic, a bunch of tiny seeds, and crossed fingers.Everything we bought in May was already sprouted, beyond seedlings, nascent little plants. Like, toddler plants. Things went well, for the most part.
I got ambitious. I bought seeds. I probably waited too long to plant them.
So on July 24, I buckled down and did it. Here's the lettuce (mesclun mix), basil, zucchini (One seed in the packet? Are you kidding me?) and sunflowers. Lettuce and sunflowers are in the full-size egg cartons; basil in five of the six nooks in the smaller one, zucchini in the last niche:
so i made the same mistake... i'll be starting seeds this winter. apparently you should start them in peat moss, just sprinkle seeds on top of peat moss, then sprinkle on more peat moss, then water softly (i'm thinking drill drainage holes in the container and do a soak watering instead of from above). wait for the seed leaves to change into real leaves and then plant outside. i think with the seed leaves you can transplant into larger containers on a need basis (like 20 of the 30 watermelon seeds sprouted or the sprouted a lot earlier than you expected, you know?)i need to do a little more research. but so far a lot of gardeners concur on the peat moss thing.
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