Starting seeds indoors

[kiuru]

Very simple premise, many plants and vegetables are successfully and commercially grown accross the globe in conditions where the growing season is not long or hot enough for direct sowing outdoors. This would be a way to extend the growing season in colder climates for crops like corn, pumpkin, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, beans etc.

Ceramic bowls filled with fertile soil / compost could be placed indoors 2 x 2 and sown with crops while outside temperatures are still freezing and then planted out to kickstart the growth. This is intentionally not scaleable but represents a midway towards a greenhouse, which is and should be a more expensive endeavour. 

On a related note, many cereal crops like rye and wheat are often sown and germinated in the late summer/early fall, whereupon they develop shoots that overwinter under snow and continue growing to be harvested midsummer. Some hardy veggies like parsnips are sown before snow to get an early start when the snow melts and the seeds germinate in early spring.

Edited Monday at 12:15 PM by kiuru

[Bruno Willis]

I'd love to see a practical use for the planter pots in game already. It would be really cute to plant seeds in the planters (like 6 seeds per planter) and then remove them once they hit the first growth stage and re-plant them in your garden. If you just let them keep growing, one would dominate and you'd end up with a single crop even if you left all six seedlings in.