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Earlier this week, I was transplanting some of my little seedlings. The first true leaves had developed, so it was time to move the seedlings to their own growing containers. I finished 12 flats ...

Almost anyone who has started seeds indoors can tell you horror stories about that undertaking. Seedlings healthy one day suddenly slump the next and never recover. Mold billows up on the soil ...