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| Indoor Seed Start Home Gardening in North Jersey |
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| Home and Garden • Starting Your Garden • What to Grow • When to Plant • Indoor Seed Start • Peas Please • Tomatoes!! |
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Starting vegetable plants indoors is an easy way to get a jump on spring planting and is essential to growing tomatoes and eggplants in northern New Jersey.
Materials and Apparatus
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Burpee Super Beefsteak Tomato
Seeds (250 mg, about 55 seeds) |
| 1 |
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Burpee Black Beauty Eggplant
Seeds (250 mg about 55 seeds) |
| 1 |
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Burpee Roma Tomato seeds (250 mg) |
| 2 |
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Jiffy Professional Greenhouse
trays (36 peat pellets) |
| 1 |
new pencil (for making seed
holes) |
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1 liter watering can |
Procedure
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Remove clear plastic cover from
seed trays and arrange peat pellets in the
plastic molds. |
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Add aproximately 3 cups of warm water to each tray, ensuring pellets are in place. Wait aproximately 15 minutes or until peat pellets are fully expanded. |
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Mark an unsharpened pencil about
1/4 inch from the end. |
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Use the pencil to create holes in the middle of the peat pellets. Make the holes between 1/4 and 1/2 inches deep. |
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Slice open end of seed envelope.
Carefully tap envelope until seed reaches end of
envelope to drop into peat pellet hole.
Repeat until all peat pellets contain seeds, add
a second seed to pellets until seed envelope is
empty. Try not to touch seeds with
fingers. |
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Recover trays with plastic cover,
snapping into place. Set aside in a warm place.
wait. |
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Six days after planting, tomato
seedlings emerge! |
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