Tips on Starting Seeds for an Indoor Container Garden
One of the best things you can learn is to grow your own food.
I started gardening around 2015, after working on an urban farm on the south side of Chicago. While there, I learned the beauty of cultivating land and connecting with the soil/earth. On a deeper level, the experience unblocked an ancestral connection to working with the earth that I had the power to redefine for my own health and vitality.
5 years later, I am still here nurturing a new set of seedlings and could not be any more excited to get to harvest and share my seedlings with friends/family who would like to start a garden of their own. For me, that’s what it is all about – being the vehicle to share information so that others may benefit and prosper.
How to start seeds
Here’s what you will need:
Seeds*
Seed starting soil
Spray bottle filled with naturally filtered water*
Medium to Large mixing pot/container
Space covering materials (newspaper, grocery bags, etc)
A sunny location
Small pots/ empty egg carton
Gloves
1. Lay space covering material over your work area
2. Fill a medium to large mixing pot 2/3 full with seed starting soil. Add water to the soil and mix (adding more water as needed) to get the soil to a moist and fluffy consistency.
3. Add soil to fill your small pot.
4. Place a small indentation (the size of a pencil eraser) to the top, center of your soil
5. Add 2-3 seeds to the hole.
6. Sprinkle dirt over the hole to loosely cover it.
7. Moisten the soil with spray bottle.
8. Place in a sunny and warm location.
*it is important to look at the back of the seed packet to learn if that particular seed is good for how you plan to use it
*full a watering can with tap water and allow it to sit for 1-2 days so that the chemicals can naturally evaporate and filter the water.
Important Notes
It will be important to keep the plant warm and soil moist to aid in growth. Plan to water with the spray bottle twice a day. Covering the plant with plastic can help to side up the process. This creates a greenhouse effect. This is optional.
Naturally, Alescia 