Star Wars Garden Gnome The Mad Seed Starter

Considering hanging upward my indoor seed-starting chapeau forever...

I'm hopping mad --- at myself.

I'm mad at myself for failing - consistently as well as repeatedly - alongside my efforts to start plants from seed indoors.

I don't bring whatever work raising plants (at to the lowest degree for sure plants) from seed outdoors, simply I'm pretty pitiful when it comes to starting seeds inwards pots indoors.

Well, actually, my commencement experiment (inspired past times videos as well as blog posts similar this) was to test starting seeds inwards eggshells.

My married adult woman as well as I diligently saved our plastic clamshell egg containers as well as washed-out eggshells all winter. In the spring, I purchased a plastic table, grow low-cal as well as timer, setting upward the whole shebang inwards the garage. Then I packed the shells alongside obviously erstwhile topsoil from a big-box store, dusted the soil alongside seeds as well as laid upward dorsum to picket the magic.

Sure enough, seeds sprouted!

But the seedlings never grew much. And well-nigh of them presently withered as well as died.

Perhaps I hadn't given them plenty H2O as well as the soil had dried out?

So I tried again, heading to a growers' furnish store to buy biodegradable peat pots as well as closed to adept organic potting soil alongside fertilizers built in.

Once ane time again -- adept germination, non much growth, eventual wilting as well as death.

I'm tempted to seat upward on this whole indoor seed-starting describe concern alongside its grow lights as well as timers as well as spray bottles. Instead, perchance I'll test a chip of cold-frame gardening side past times side winter.

Or does anyone desire to test to convince me to seat it closed to other test as well as enlighten me every bit to what I mightiness live doing wrong? Should I test the bottom watering method shown here?