This beginner-friendly guide explains how to start a vegetable garden with indirect and direct seed-sowing methods.

Heres all you’re gonna wanna know to get those seeds started.

Starting Vegetable Seeds Indoors or Outdoors?

Small vegetable plants inside

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When making decisions about which seeds get precious indoor space, start with those that germinate and/or grow slowly.

Leave the vining veggies like peas and beans outdoors, as well asroot vegetablesthat can resent transplanting.

Then, scan your seed packets for sowing times.

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Depending on the throw in of seed, the packet may provide both indoor and outdoor sowing times.

Come Saturday, you’ve got the option to just grab and go!

Seeds are tiny and excitement is high in late winter.

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Its easy to sow too many seeds.

Youll water, transplant, and worry less, and enjoy the plants you grow more.