After creating your soil or soilless mix, fill your container and leave an inch (2.5 cm) of empty space at the top. Poke your finger into the planting medium where you’d like the carrots to go, about half an inch (1 cm) deep. Space the seed holes about 3 inches (8 cm) apart, if not more. Drop two to three seeds into each hole, which will increase

After planting and topdressing with a light layer of potting mix, water the radishes and then stretch some plastic wrap over the pot for a couple of days.

When growing several varieties of lettuce, I sometimes forget what works well and what doesn’t, or what tasted too bitter or too boring. A quick perusal of my gardening journal before ordering always helps me to distinguish the bountiful from the blah.

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ABUNDANT GREENS, BUT MINIMAL BEET GROWTH This can happen when too much nitrogen is in the soil. Most likely, you’ve been overfertilizing,

There are numerous varieties of spinach, but those designated as “baby leaf” tend to work best indoors because they’re meant to be harvested at a small size. The leaves will tend to have a mild flavor with a nice bit of crunch that pairs well with salad greens. Here are a few varieties to consider:

Like carrots, beets do better when the greens are upright, so “hill up” the greens by adding more soil around them and forming a larger base for them until they stand up.

Trays, Pots, and Other Containers Even though you’re choosing smaller varieties of kale and chard, the plants still need plenty of room to stretch out, so this might be a good time to utilize a larger planter that you have on hand. I’ve attempted to seed one chard plant in a medium-sized pot and the results were mediocre; I had much better growth

Trays, Pots, and Other Containers When choosing a container, you can plant several radishes in a round pot, but I tend to like a narrow, rectangular pot to mimic the way that radishes would grow in the field. They need to be at least a few inches (8 cm) apart for adequate growth, so putting them in a long container will create a nice row that’s