Starting Seeds Indoors
When: Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Where:
Phelps COunty Extension Center
Courthouse, 200 N. Main, Rolla MO
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This seminar will focus on easy to difficult seed propagation including: seed collecting, seed anatomy and dormancy, seed germination requirement techniques; seed sowing and seedling transplanting, and dry seed storage requirements. Annual, perennial, native wildflowers, and native trees and shrub seed propagation will also be covered in this lecture.
Offered to help beginner and experienced gardeners understand the science behind successfully starting plants indoors by seed.
Whether you are using seeds bought from a nursery catalogue, or seeds collected from your own garden, starting seeds indoors can be a rewarding investment of time and resources. Plants grown by seed indoors in a greenhouse, cold frame, or under grow lights inside a home, offer the benefits of early maturing plants and harvests, better weed competition, healthier less vulnerable plants to pests, and less manual thinning of plants. Seed collecting, storing, and starting, is both and art and a science. To be successful, it is important to have the right knowledge and tools to perform the job in a precise, diligent, and scheduled manner.
Session topic:
Seed anatomy, seed germination, seed sowing, transplanting, and seed storage techniques, including a take home example of three different types of seeds with three different seed germination techniques.
Registration:
On March 12, 2013, from 6:00-7:30 pm, the University of Missouri Extension, Phelps County will be offering the seminar “Starting Seeds Indoors,” for area gardeners. The seminar will be held at the Phelps County Extension Center located at the Rolla Municipal Courthouse, 200 N. Main Rolla, MO 65401
The seminar will be taught by Patrick Greenwald, Horticulture Specialist – Phelps County Extension. Time after the presentation will be reserved for garden-related questions. Cost for the program is $6.00 payable in advance at the Phelps County Extension Center. Due to limited seating and to ensure adequate handouts and other program materials, participants are asked to pre-register and pay by March 5, 2013. To reserve a seat call the Phelps County Extension Center at 573-458-6260.