Choosing Containers

Vegetables and
Annual Flowers

Class 1: Gardening Basics
Class 2: Garden Planning & Design
Class 3: Indoor Seed Starting
Class 4: Planting & Transplanting
Class 5: Maintaining a Healthy Garden
Class 6: Troubleshooting

You can use almost any kind of container to start your seeds. You can purchase plastic pots, peat pots, or special flats and inserts, or use "home-grown" containers such as egg cartons, small yogurt containers, waxed paper cups, or milk cartons.

Here are some important considerations:

There must be one or more drainage holes.
The container should hold up to a reasonable amount of handling and water contact.
You’ll need a watertight tray underneath the pots to collect excess water and to water from below. (We’ll talk about bottom-watering in a few minutes.)

Purchased plastic containers fit conveniently into larger seed-starting trays, and they usually last at least a few seasons. Peat pots and paper pots are especially good for plants that don't like their roots disturbed during transplanting, since you can plant them pot and all.

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