Seed Starter offers a detailed plant encyclopedia, profiling 300 popular annuals, perennials, vegetables, and herbs and listing all the basic growing needs of the plant, including soil and light needs. Complete and up-to-date information on sowing indoors and outdoors, fertilizing, watering, thinning, transplanting, and troubleshooting. Extensive appendices cover average first and last frost dates, indoor and outdoor planting guides, popular vegetable and herb planting charts, and seeds that need light to germinate.