The Seed Starting Countdown
A Beginner's Week-by-Week Guide to Growing Strong Vegetable and Herb Seedlings Indoors, Timed to Your Last Frost Date
Most seed-starting failures come down to one thing: timing. This book fixes that first.
Start tomatoes too early and they're tall, pale and root-bound by planting day. Start peppers too late and they're barely growing when summer arrives. The Seed Starting Countdown gives you one simple method: find your last frost date, count back, and every crop gets its own sowing week.
- The Countdown table: sow windows for 21 vegetables and herbs, built from University of New Hampshire Extension timings
- A complete sample season, week by week, from the first onion sowing to the last tomato planting
- A simple light setup: LED or fluorescent, how close, how many hours, and how to tell if it's right
- Sowing, watering, feeding and potting up, step by step
- A troubleshooting table for leggy seedlings, damping off, fungus gnats and more
- Hardening off and transplanting without losing plants
- Crop quick guides plus four fill-in worksheets: seed inventory, germination test log, Countdown planner and sowing log
Every timing, temperature and technique is drawn from university extension research, with sources listed, and where experts disagree, the book tells you so and gives you a sensible place to start.
Written with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed in the book.
Seedlark Garden Guides is a Woguru imprint for practical, week-by-week home and garden handbooks. Every number is drawn from university extension research, with sources listed in each book.
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