To get your zucchini off to a good start and won’t have to worry about birds and rotting seeds, start your zucchini indoors. By doing this, you will be sure that the seeds won’t rot before they sprout under the soil. Growing your own zucchini seedlings from seed offers you more flexibly and control over your gardening task. You have the opportunity to choose your favorite varieties, you can grow the number of plants you need, and work within the planting dates that suit your growing area. Here are my tips for starting zucchini seeds indoors.
How to Start Zucchini Indoors
Seeds Selection
Before you start your seedlings, for optimal germination and yield results, it’s best to choose zucchini seed varieties suited to your growing region. So you want to purchase seed that is grown, and tested, in an area with similar growing conditions to yours.
Seeds Germination
It’s easy to germinate zucchini seeds indoors, and you can begin germinating zucchini seeds one week before the last frost date. If you live in area that receive frost. You can read more on how to germinate the seeds Here!
Planting Germinated Seeds
After your zucchini seeds have sprouted, fill your plastic pots to the half with seed starting potting mix, simply drop three sprouted seeds in every pot and gently cover to the top. Use a spray to water smoothly. Your zucchini seedlings will emerge in three days.
Just remember that if your seed starting potting mix is moisted, there's no need to water, your zucchini will emerge, and after you can water them!
After your seedlings have emerged, you must provide them with a good source of light. You can place them by a window as long as they will not experience extreme heat from the sun during the day. Never let the seedlings dry out. Thin the seedlings by keeping the ones that look healthy and strong, and snip the rest so there's just one plant per pot.
Once the seedlings are around 10 cm tall, plant them outside. But you must harden off the seedlings, about 7 days before planting your plants outdoors, to help acclimate them to temperatures, sunlight, and wind. This is the process of hardening off, or gradually acclimating your new plants to outdoor conditions. These plants have spent their short lives in a warm, sunny, protected place and won't fare well if you don't expose them slowly to the elements.
Now that you know how to start zucchini indoors and how, it is not particularly complicated. By this way you will have a very good start and won't have to worry about birds and rotting seeds!
Try to start your own seeds indoors, it's so easy. But first of all always start by selecting high-quality seeds!
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Happy Gardening!