There are nearly 2 decades of articles on this site pertaining to growing seeds and seedlings. Here are just a few on popular topics to help get you started.

My books You Grow Girl, Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces, and Easy Growing: Organic Herbs and Edible Flowers from Small Spaces all contain invaluable resources to help guide you through the process of growing seeds in small spaces on a tiny budget.

• Download a printable Seed Starting Chart to help you calculate start dates.
• Find out what happens when a seed germinates.
• Build a D.I.Y Lighting System
• Make your own seed starting mix.
• Don’t throw your old seeds out! Find out how to check their “viability”.
• Seed starting instructions (scroll down the page).
• Recycling and reusing seed starting pots.
• Make a toilet roll seed starter.
• Mid and late season planting.
• A list of seeds that you can start in the summer months.

• Yoghurt Container Seedling Pot: Upsizing to a larger pot.
• How to “harden off” your seedlings.
• Why did my seedlings rot? How to avoid damping off.
• Why are my seedlings tall and floppy? Learn how to avoid growing “leggy” plants.

• A Beginner’s Guide to Vegetable Seed Starting
• Start Healthy Tomatoes
• Touch your tomato seedlings to help them grow sturdy and strong.
• Grow microgreens on a windowsill all winter long.
• Ensure your bounty of peas.

• Find out about the Safe Seed Pledge

United States

• Bountiful Gardens
• Botanical Interests
• Fedco: Co-op seed packers from Maine.
• High Mowing
• Horizon Herbs
• Kitazawa Seeds: Japanese seed company that sells interesting edibles.
• Renee’s Garden
• Territorial Seed Company
• Tomato Grower’s Supply Company

Canada

• Gardens North
• Salt Spring Seeds
• Terra Edibles
• Urban Harvest
• West Coast Seeds

Seed Trading

• Seed Savers Exchange
• Seeds of Diversity Canada

• Lee Valley Windowsill Starter: Useful in apartments and small spaces.

• These Are a Few of My Favourite Peas
• Giant Cape Gooseberry
• Salad Greens: Direct sow these.
• Wild Eggplant: Just for the heck of it, I decided to grow one this year.
• Growing Beans: Buy now, but wait until after the last frost to direct sow outdoors.
• ‘Trionfo Violetto’: If you only have room for one pole bean, I’d suggest this one.
• ‘Spigarello’ Leaf Broccoli: A very productive and beautiful leafy green.
• Edible Flowers
• Delicious Nasturtiums
• Tomatoes to Grow in Containers (or anywhere else for that matter)
• Tomatoes to grow in containers, or anywhere else for that matter.
• Hot Pepper varieties that I grew in 2011.
• Italian Edibles
• Tomatoes worth growing: check out this archive of some of my favourites.
• Food worth growing