Getting Started

From picking out seeds from catalogues in January to carefully selecting new seeds to save at the end of the season, check out the resources below to help you get started.

Fact Sheet 7.602 on Saving Seeds: https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/yard-garden/saving-seed-7-602/ 

• VIDEO: How to Read a Seed Catalog (6:01)

• VIDEO: Starting Seeds: Getting Started (15:25)

• VIDEO: Starting Seeds: Planting Inside & Outside, Scheduling (15:00)

• VIDEO: Starting Seeds: Transplanting & Saving Seed (14:46)

• VIDEO: Saving Seeds Part 1 (4:42)

• VIDEO: Saving Seeds Part 2 (3:56)

• VIDEO: Saving Seeds Part 3 (2:52)

• VIDEO: Saving Seeds Part 4 (7:20)

·         Starting Plants Indoors – Planttalk #1034

·         Soil Temperatures, Frosts and Planting Dates – Planttalk #1626

·         Seeding Vegetables – Planttalk #1814

·         Starting Vegetable Seeds Indoors – Planttalk #1840

·         Seed Starting Woes (Abiotic afflictions in the spring garden) – Planttalk #1853

·         Seed Tape for the Easy Vegetable Garden – Planttalk #1854

·         Seed Storage – Planttalk #2020

·         Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds – Fact Sheet #7.221

·         Growing Plants from Seed – Fact Sheet #7.409

·         En Espanol – Cultivo de Plantas desde Semillas – Fact Sheet #7.409

·         Saving Seed – Fact Sheet #7.602

·         Sample Vegetable Garden Seed Catalogs – CMG GardenNotes #712

·         Sample Planting Guide for Raised-Bed Garden – CMG GardenNotes #721