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Starting Onion Seeds indoors in wet paper towels \u2013 here’s one that is getting it’s legs!<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n If you want to start vegetables from seeds in your garden, but have trouble keeping the soil moist until seeds germinate, here’s a simple solution: germinate the seeds by folding seeds into a paper towel, getting it damp, and storing in a reusable container until the seeds germinate. Once their green heads and white roots appear, you can gently press the seedling into loose potting soil and “mist” water them in. I like to use a spray mister at this stage as a watering can may wash away the tiny seedlings at this stage.<\/p>\n Starting Seeds indoors in wet coffee filters<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n All you need:<\/p>\n Some people recommend putting the seeds in the dark, I’ve had luck in both light or the dark.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Transplanted lettuce seedlings that were started in a wet paper towel.\u00a0Lettuce seeds are the quickest germinators I’ve found! I transplanted these directly into my cold frame after they germinated in the paper towel (on Feb 21st, which was a warm week at 60+ degrees), and they seem to be doing quite nicely so far! I’ll post updates soon.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you want to start vegetables from seeds in your garden, but have trouble keeping the soil moist until seeds germinate, here’s a simple solution: germinate the seeds by folding seeds into a paper towel, getting it damp, and storing in a reusable container until the seeds germinate. Once their green heads and white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Starting](\"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/starting-seeds-wet-paper-towel-or-coffee-filter-1024x576.jpg\")
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\n (the seedlings don’t “grab” a hold of the coffee filter as easily as paper towels)<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n![\"Starting](\"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/seed-starting-wet-paper-towel-or-coffee-filters-1024x576.jpg\")
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