Planting Tips

1. Soak your big seeds in water before you plant. (Cuts 3-5 days off your germination time.)
2. Don’t soak if it looks like you are going to have cool and wet weather. (The seeds rot)
3. The size of the seed determines how deep you put the seeds in the soil.
4. Do 4 beans around a beanpole.
5. Mark the row out, do a shallow trench and then poke the hole, put the seed in, tamp it down and cover it up.
6. The seeds need to stay moist. Water by hand, soaker hose (best watering), overhead watering or plant before the rain.
7. Some starters don’t do as well as direct sews. Tomatoes and peppers need to be transplanted.

From Melissa K. Norris’s Class on Sewing Your Garden