Spring Gardening in the Cottage Greenhouse: How to Prepare Seedlings for Outdoors

The seeds I planted in April are almost ready to be planted in their new homes outside! The little seeds have spent a cozy Spring on warm heat mats and cosseted under cozy moisture domes. Now the last step I need to do is to thin out the seedlings and harden off the plants before they’re transplanted outside.

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DIY Homemade Seed Packets: A Fun Gardening Project

“What a playhouse is to a child, a potting shed is to a gardener”
~ Unknown

After days of colder-than-normal temperatures, the sunshine beckoned and it seemed like a good day to “go outside and play”…in the greenhouse. It was still chilly outside, but the temperature in the Cottage Greenhouse was 72 degrees…and a perfect day for dreaming of Spring flowers.

One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

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