Hardening off seedlings

Knowing how to harden off seedlings is vital if you want them to survive transplanting. After nurturing your seedlings all winter, you'll want to make sure you know how to do this last vital step of starting seedlings for a bountiful harvest and plenty of green thumb bragging rights! #seedlings #organicgarden #transplant #gardenchant #gardentips

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Hardening off seedlings is important for them to survive outside. Learn when and how to do it step-by-step, with a complete daily schedule.

Start the gardening season off right by learning how to harden off seedlings successfully in just 7 days’ time.

Gardening instructions can be full of peculiar phrases from British gardening traditions. “Potting on,” “pricking out,” and “hardening off” are all things we do with seedlings to help them prepare for eventual transplanting out into the garden. Hardening off seedlings is probably the most important concept that new gardeners can grasp to improve successful transplants. It is the process of gradually introducing seedlings started indoors to the much harsher conditions of the garden outside…

Hardening off seedlings is the act of slowly allowing your baby plants, to grow accustomed to living outdoors. Learn how with this step by step tutorial on how to harden off your seedlings.

Light is energy and plants use it for fuel. Color signifies the amount of energy carried by light waves and has specific effects on a plant’s growth and development. Plants need multiple light colors for effective photosynthesis and sun is only one source of that light.

Tender seedlings may not make it if you bring them outside too soon. That's why you need to expose them gradually to outdoor conditions by hardening them off.