Seed Starting at the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Office!

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Here at MOTHER EARTH NEWS, we try to not only bring you great gardening content — we are trying to be great gardeners! Last week our editorial team, complete with seasoned gardeners and eager beginners, took on an exciting seed-planting project right here in our office.

We got some seed-starting mix and trays at a local garden center, and several people on our team brought in different tomato and pepper varieties to get started — mostly heirlooms. We ended up with four pepper varieties and eight tomato varieties. I’ve heard lots of good things about ‘Carmen’ peppers and ‘Sun Gold’ tomatoes, both of which we planted. I’m very excited to try them out.

As luck would have it, we had just the right amount of tray slots to plant eight starts of each kind of seed. Using cardboard tags made from a cut-up granola box (I can hear the hippie references already), we labeled our trays, and then got them good and watered.

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