Posts Tagged ‘seeds’

If you’ve never gardened before, you might be intimidated by all of the supplies at your local supermarket or garden shop.  You really only need a few things to start seeds.  A container, soil, water, and the seeds.  That said, to increase your chances of success, there are several things you can do.  Here’s a step by step guide to starting seeds in a way that has proven successful for me in the past. I usually start with coconut coir.  It’s a fiber extracted from the shell of a coconut, and they compress it into tiny pellets that expand when you soak them in water.  It comes in a variety of sizes, and while I usually like to get a brick of the stuff, unfortunately my local gardening store only had these pellets.  You can plant directly in the pellet, but as you will see, I removed the netting so