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Tips for Selecting Seed Trays

You can usually find seed trays in garden seed catalogs or at a nursery; however, if you have trouble finding them you might check with eBay.

For beginners, I suggest that you use a seed starting kit which usually comes with trays for starting seed.

Why to Use Trays for Growing Seeds…

Whether you are planting annual flower seeds or herb seeds , or if you are getting a head start by starting garden vegetable seeds indoors, or if you are recycling flower garden seed from your garden, starting them in trays instead of pots is very useful.

Divided trays help you to grow seeds one by one so that the roots from the seedling don't intertwine with other plants.

They make transplanting the seedlings easy.

They allow you to move the starting plants if needed in regard to sunlight.

It is simple to tell if each seedling is getting enough water.

Personally, I love the plastic, divided trays for starting seed. I have tried to use a tray that is not divided. It works; however, sometimes the roots from other plants get intertwined and you stand the chance of damaging the roots when transplanting the seedlings.

When transplanting a seedling that was grown in a plastic, divided tray you just rip the tray and discard it and plant the seedling, attached soil and all, into the ground. There is less of a chance that you will damage the root system.

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