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Using Peat Pots to Start Seedlings
by Peggy Robertson
Learn how to start seedlings using a peat pot in this free gardening video clip.
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How to Use Peat Pots
by Kat Yares
Ask any garden enthusiast and they will tell you that peat pots are perfect for starting seed for your garden. The seed starts can be vegetables or flowers but plants like to begin their life cycle in a pot of their own. Read on to learn how to use peat pots.
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How to Make Inexpensive Peat Pots and Start Plants Indoors
by camellia
Do you love gardening and can't wait for spring? Get a headstart on your garden and start your plants indoors in these inexpensive, biodegradeable peat pots. You'll be recycling at the same time!
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How to Plant Peat Pots
by L. Shepherd
Peat pots are an environmentally-friendly alternative to plastic planting pots. The pots are made from compressed peat moss that are shaped to form a planting pot. When they are planted, peat pots supply the soil with some extra organic material to provide nutrients as well as to give the soil better drainage. Both of these functions are helpful to new plants, and the pots aren't added to landfill waste.
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How to Make Peat Pots
by Julie Elefante
Many gardeners like to start seeds in seed trays, especially if the soil outside is still too cold for direct planting. The trouble with using just trays is that young plants can be traumatized when their patch of planting soil is removed from the trays and placed in the soil outside. Peat pots remove that risk of trauma; you can simply plant the entire pot into the outside soil, because the pots themselves will dissolve shortly after they are planted.
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How to Start Summer Squash in Peat Pots
by Hanna Terhaar
Summer squash is one of the easiest and most productive vegetables you can grow, and does well in most climates and soils. Squash can be planted any time after the danger of frost has passed, but you can start your seedlings in peat pots indoors two to three weeks before you plant them outside.
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How to Make Peat Pot Easter Baskets
by irwriter
These adorable little Easter baskets would look perfect on the Easter dinner table, or you can fill them with toiletries and place them in your bathroom. You can fill them with candies for a mini Easter morning treat, too.
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How to Grow Seeds and Small Seedlings in Peat Pots
by Linda McCloud
It can be a lot cheaper to buy your own seeds and then transplant them into your garden than it is to buy all ready grown flowers. Plus, you have the wonderful experience of watching them grow from birth to bloom.
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How to Make a Peat Pot Alternative for Seedlings
by Janet Ford
Starting seedlings indoors for later planting to your garden can be an enjoyable way to save some money. Not having to transplant them out of a container and then into the ground can avoid shocking them and increase your success rate while gardening.
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About Direct Seeding Flowers
by Sandra Petersen
In January, the first seed catalogs appear in mailboxes with photos of colorful flowers adorning the covers. For the gardener wishing to forgo peat pots and growing lamps for his flowers, many seeds can be sown directly into the garden.
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