Blogger isn´t liking my internet connection, so I´m splitting this post. Maybe I can actually write it before I get logged out again for the tenth time,)
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As I don´t live at my Momma´s with long 24-hour hot-as-hell humid steamy perfect climate, but here in a chilly to cold night drier night climate with currently hot sunny days, with a short season that is quick to start and end, I start my seeds inside. Using biodegradable "planters" such as either egg shells or the thick paper egg shell cartons cut up eventually at planting time. These are good, as I have them, and they biodegrade good for the planet and my garden and the plant itself, for nutrients.
I do NOT ever used sterilized soil. I use a normal mix of healthy soil which I´ve added healthy compost to from my garden. Sterilzed soil is bad in my opinion and I don´t want that in my garden. Sterilized to me implies the life, the living soil, has been killed. I want life in my soil, as my garden needs it...all those tiny tiny living things roaming thru the soil which help it keep my plants healthy. Anywho, whatever, but try to get just good clean healthy soil, not moss, not peat moss, not sterilized.
In the daytime, when it´s warm, so the soil is warm, add some soil to your eggshells, then a few seeds to each in case not all the seeds sprout, cover gently with just a tiny bit of soil. My granddad used to paint seeds onto a long strip of paper, then plant that directly in the ground, and that is what I do in warmer weather, when planting directly into the ground. The paint used is more like a wet thin glue, not paint,).
