When you’re buying young plants, how can you be sure you’re picking healthy seedlings? In this video, Stacey Murphy of Grow Your Own Vegetables shares 5 surefire tips.
5 Surefire Ways to Choose Healthy Seedlings
We’ve all been there: You go to your local nursery to pick healthy seedlings, choose a lush-looking plant with some nice flowers on it, and bring it home . . . only to have it die on you a few days or weeks later.
What on earth did you do wrong in this scenario? And how can you improve your odds for success next go-round?
In this 2-minute video, Stacey Murphy of Grow Your Own Vegetables shares the 5 characteristics of healthy seedlings—and how to know when it’s time to look elsewhere:
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