Happy Earth Day!
As we headed into another season of gardening, I knew that I wanted to change up my seed starting process. We moved into a new home last August, and I left behind a lot of the farm equipment that I would typically use to start our garden and work in it all season long. This included my plastic plant pots and trays. I only kept a few plastic bottom trays just in case they were needed, but other than that, I wanted to be creative with what I was going to use. In truth, I wanted to look to more historically used items for the garden as well as think outside of the box when it came to what I already had around my house. If you think about it, commercial seed starting supplies would not have existed during the 18th and 19th centuries. People who wanted to grow crops that needed extra time indoors to grow a harvestable crop would need to be creative and use what they had about the home.
I used my experience visiting Colonial Williamsburg as inspiration for what to use to start my garden indoors. To my surprise, this has been my most successful seed starting experience yet! You know, it only took me six years to figure it out - ha! While I cannot say it necessarily correlates with the use of different containers, I can say that having grow lights has improved my success rate tenfold.
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