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Show you can work out your own inside gardening methods to suit your convenience and the space available. avail-able. Then when the weather is warm enough you can transplant the boxes of plants outdoors (usually this date is sometime in May) after the danger from frost has rassed. Start Seeds Inside Before Moving Them Out-of -Doors . Long before it is time to sow seeds outdoors, the gardner can start them indoors. At first reading read-ing the directions for starting seeds indoors may seem complicated, but actually, with a little experience Seeds need warmth, moisture ind darkness for germination. The new sprout does not need food, in fact it can do without food until the true leaves develop. That is an important fact to remember. The "true" leaves are very frequently fre-quently different from those first leaves which pop out of the ground. For this reason the top layer of the planting mixture you put in your seed pans can be that easily handled product, sphagnum moss. Be sure that you buy the sifted kind. Sifted sphagnum moss holds water like a sponge and can give the tiny roots of the sprouting seeds the support they need. Another An-other great advantage is the fact that sphagnum is sterile and guards the tiny seedlings against soil borne diseases that can kill (Continued on Tage 6-B) the planting medium. Usually the larger sized seeds are covered about as deep as their diameter. A sheet of newspaper cut to fit the seed pan will provide the darkness dark-ness required. Ordinary room temperature is sufficient for germination. Water carefully. Usually you will have less trouble if you set the flat in a large pan which contains an inch of water. Allow seed pans to stand in the water until the moisture shows on the surface of the seed bed. After the plants begin to grow they need all the sunshine they can get. As they start stretching toward the light, it will be necessary neces-sary to turn the boxes each day to keep the growth even. Seed Planting (Continued from Page 2) a whole flatful of plants in half . a day. The top layer of sphagnum can be half an inch deep and should be another half an inch below the top of the seed pan. Under, the top layer you can put an inch layer lay-er of soil, say of equal parts of good garden loam( sifted through a kitchen sieve, and leaf mold. Below this you can put a layer of plain garden loam, and under neath, you can use a layer of coarse peat moss or the coarse sphagnum moss. If there are wide spaces between the bottom slats of the flats, then use a piece of burlap, cut to fit the bottom of the flat This will allow the water to soak upward to toward the seeds, but will keep the soil from washing out of the cracks between the pieces of boards. It is advisable tc use small size seed pahs to keep different types of flowers seperate, and help in treating their different rates of growth as required. Seeds should be sown in straight rowst one inch apart. Merely press the smallest seeds into the top of |