The same is true for many of our favorite annual flowers.
Starting garden plants indoors.
In warmer regions starting seeds indoors can allow you to get in an extra round of crops especially cool weather crops before the heat of summer stifles growth.
It generally doesn t drain well and may contain plant disease spores.
In regions with short growing seasons starting seeds indoors allows you to gain a few precious weeks of growing time which can really make a difference when frost looms in the fall.
A package of seeds will usually announce if the plant should be started indoors with instructions that include phrases such as start indoors 8 weeks before last expected frost date in your area each type of plant has its own particular needs for starting it indoors.
Even for crops that don t come from near the equator starting seeds indoors gives some plants a head start that brings earlier harvests and greater yield.
If possible don t use garden soil to start seeds indoors.
When the seedlings are a few inches tall transplant them to your designated garden spot.
But if you start too late the seedlings don t mature enough indoors.
Make sure your containers have drainage holes.
If you start them indoors they can spend more time in your garden flowering instead of maturing enough to flower.
The national gardening association says you can start corn plants indoors in pots.