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Tenielle Jordison

Pro Gardeners Reveal the 5 Seed-Starting Rules they Actually Skip – and You Can Too

A summer flower bed filled with peach, orange, and purple flowers in bloom.

February often marks the start of indoor seed sowing season, getting a head start on a wide range of plants for spring. With so much to plant this month, it can feel like a pretty stressful task to get it all done. But, there are actually several seed starting rules you can break and ignore, according to pro gardeners.

If you've spent hours researching how to sow seeds indoors, you may have come across an overwhelming amount of rules to follow, threatening that your seeds will fail if you don't meet every single one. But, the experts say this simply isn't true.

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