4. Germinating Seeds
Germinating the seeds is a key phrase when you want to grow squash from seeds, and it’s true that this is a whole lot easier when it’s done outside of the environment in which you want the plants to grow. If anyone can remember the seeds-germinating-between-tissue-paper experiment from their school days, this is an exceptionally useful trick even when it comes to serious gardening.
If you allow seeds to germinate like this, it allows you to have something with substance to stick in the ground – and it ensures for a much more successful planting phase for the amateur gardener than sowing a bunch of seeds in a line and hoping that about eighty percent of them might come up.
When in the ground, seeds can be vulnerable, but already-germinated ones have built up some structure that can give them more necessary strength.
Once the seeds have properly germinated, they can be transplanted into the soil – either in pots or usually directly into the ground.