Starting Seeds Indoors

Seed Starting and Cuttings

If you need help with your garden, you can contact Montgomery County Master Gardeners, or call 301-590-9650. Our Grow It Eat It website can provide you with valuable information about vegetable gardening. The Home and Garden Information Center also has a hotline that you can call, as well as a website that contains lots of valuable information including fact sheets.

You can purchase ready made light stands here.

My favorite companies for purchasing seeds include the following:

Burpee

Pinetree Seeds (Small quanities just right for the home gardener at reasonable prices)

Harris Seeds
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Totally Tomato

Park Seeds

Dave's Garden lists 3600 mailorder garden companies including over 300 that sell vegetable seeds.

Damping off is a lethal disease that often afflicts those of us who start seeds indoors. Once you have this disease, your plants are finished. The only thing you can do is prevent the disease before it hits your seedlings. Root Shield can help to prevent this disease. Good air circulation also helps to prevent the disease.

Walls of Water and Floating Row Covers are available at Pinetree Seeds.


Walls of Water	Floating Row Covers

Tomato Spirals are available at A.M. Leonard and Gardeners Supply. If you need to tie your tomatoes up, the easiest product to use is double sided velcro, which is available here.