Is it necessary to fertilize your seedlings of seeds that you planted indoors?

Today's Q&A comes from Sonia, and she posted a similar question to this in the Beginners Garden Shortcut Facebook group.

She actually posted a picture of some fertilizer you can buy at the garden center, not organic, and it was touted to be appropriate for

flowers. It didn't even really mention vegetables. So she was curious if she could use it with

her vegetables. I found the picture kind of strange because it didn't have like an NPK number,

but it did say that it was ideal for transplanting. But to me, the bigger question

was, do we need to fertilize our indoor planted seedlings? I'll just tell you that I have only

fertilized my indoor planted seedlings, maybe one season. And I don't even really know why I did that.

I think I may have seen it on a YouTube video and I thought, oh, I need to do that because my

seedlings need some extra nutrition. But the truth is, even when I did it that year, I didn't

notice a big difference between the seedlings, their health, and between the ones that I had always done and

it had never put any extra fertilization on the seedlings. So in my opinion, I just think in my

experience, that's a step that I just don't worry with. I just skip it because I don't see the

benefit. I don't think it's necessary.

If you are planting your seeds indoors and you're getting them out, you know, within the six or

eight weeks that it takes to grow them indoors, I think, I mean, in my experience, they're going to be

fine. That seed already contains nutrition and those first

couple of leaves that pop out. Most of the time there's two leaves. Sometimes there's one.

They will gather the light and it'll help nourish a plant. In my experience, you just don't need

a lot of extra fertilization. Now, if they're going to be inside

for a longer period of time, yes, those seedlings might need a little bit of supplement, but like I said,

I've never found that to be the case. I will say that now that I am planting all of my seeds

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