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Jan 12, 2015 10:13 AM CST
Name: Karen
Valencia, Pa (Zone 6a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Cut Flowers Winter Sowing Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Echinacea
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mandolls said:If you are using a commercial soilless "seed starting mix" - it come sterile. I would only bother sterilizing if I was reusing a mix.


Once any package is open, it is no longer sterile. Germs and fungus spores can be airborne. Bugs can crawl in... Shrug! That sterile technique, after 40 years of working in the O.R., is hard to shake. Hilarious!

Karen

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