When to start seed
Seed Starting 101 | How We Start Seeds | Germinating Seeds Fast | Detailed Lesson // Garden Farm
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so today I'm just gonna go ahead and
show you guys my process of seed I have
a lot of fun this impediment has been
awesome we've been using it every single
day especially the little ones they're
like obsessed with CD now stuff fun
let's go have some fun
start seeding today I got a fun variety
you've got pumpkin on a stick it's new
for me my favorite thing to use when I'm
seeding are the seeding trace I get
these for my dad but you can do them on
gardeners or growers supply or Amazon
Amazon may be a little more expensive
but I really like these and because the
size does not fit in a ziplock to create
my germination chamber which I'll show
you in a minute I actually go ahead and
I cut them down to different sizes to
fit certain varieties and it just
depends on how many seeds are you know
in a packet and now I've got a nifty
little dirt buck in here so uh I feel
pretty lucky so I've got my seeding soil
in here I love using the jelly gardener
and you could use you know like a
Miracle Grow or some grow anything I
just really like using the CD mixture by
jelly gardener so I'm gonna plop my tray
right in there and just kind of cover it
up there we go then we're just going to
skim it off on top nice alright now
we're ready to go just so you guys know
there is not just one way of doing
things some people like to start off
with a wet soil from the beginning I
actually like to start off with my soil
dry and then seen it in bed water so
just so you know you know like
you do it your way or you can try my way
whatever what do you want either way it
grows that's all that matters right all
right
like I promise you we are going to be
doing some pumpkin out of stick if
you've never heard of pumpkin out a
stick like I never heard of it until I
started seed shopping if you never heard
of it it actually looks like pumpkins on
a stick and it's actually in this plant
so I'm really excited to try it I know
Jason likes eggplant I'm not always a
huge fan but I always love trying new
things I never like not try anything
unless it's seafood that's a normal race
yeah unfortunately for me what I'm
seeding I always like to use a bowl or a
dish real light in color helps me a seat
a lot easier see all the seeds and work
with the seed that it doesn't like to
get covered so what I'm going to do is
just go ahead and place one seed on I
always keep one of the packets just so I
know what I've already seen did the
eggplant seed said that they didn't need
to be covered so at this point you'd be
good to go ahead and really lightly
water just very lightly so you don't
splash the seeds out of there that would
be not good but I'm going to do exactly
what I did with the snapdragons
especially since now I see that they're
popping up really nice I'm going to go
ahead and finally very very finely top
dress them with a little bit of
vermiculite
as you can see I'm not really covering
them
I'm almost just adding the vermiculite
to there so the whole reason for
vermiculite is to retain moisture in the
soil so it doesn't dry out super easy
and that way the seed doesn't dry out
because as soon as your seed dries out
it is done for there's no returning no
coming back from that and that's that's
it the vermiculite trick I learned from
my dad and that has been probably the
the one trick that has really helped
create my seedlings to germinate super
well because there's times fun let's be
real we all live in busy lives there
could be some times where maybe we know
missed or remember to water a seedling
or fresh seeds so that way if the soil
gets a little dry with that vermiculite
it really holds and retains that
moisture and it doesn't dry out as
quickly for you my dad he's a farmer
he's owner of Wayne stutters greenhouses
and he's the head cedar there so any tip
or trick that you can give me on seeding
I'll take it so the next step is
watering you always want to make sure
that your water is on really really low
like this so that way you go over it
really fast so you're not drenching it
right off the bat you're kind of just
getting so that the soil sets in there
so then when you go to water it a little
bit more a little higher pressure not
much though that way your seed is not
being thrown out of the dirt what I also
make sure to do is that soils all the
way wet all the way through once I'm
done watering it I let it sit here and
drip dry just a little bit this is where
the Ziploc comes in it's my homemade
germination chamber super affordable
because we know how gardening can be
especially if you have this big of an
addiction as I do right Jason don't
forget to subscribe to the Lawrence
Network
so all we're gonna do is place the tray
inside there we go and now I'll show you
the next step with the ziplock bag you
want to go through and create just a few
aeration holes because without you know
any there everything needs there so not
a ton though I'll show you why just a
few this will kind of help with the
condensation so now we got some of those
little holes from there and place that
toothpick on the very last row of
seedlings and place it there and I'm
going to do a couple more so that way it
holds the plastic up off of the seeds
okay that's actually good the twos fine
so for now this is how it's gonna stay
since it's the first day seeding it I'm
not gonna worry about holding it up too
high
for right now you kind of want to keep
it low so you get just a little bit of
condensation in there you're creating a
germination chamber so you need that
moisture in there in that hot heat so
we're going to put it right in front of
that Sun so it heats up like a
greenhouse and then as soon as you start
seeing big drips of water that's what
you don't want you want it to almost get
there but not get there so as soon as it
gets there that's when you want to make
sure that this area here is open more so
that way you get more of an air flow
inside to kind of dry it out a little
bit but yet it's still humid like a nice
little greenhouse like I said there's so
many different ways of seeding but this
has been my way for quite a while now
and it just is always always good I
always have germination and I always
have great plants with with the way I do
I didn't I just figure you know what why
not share with you guys how I do it
since I have you know good luck with it
I also liked
another really affordable tip on how to
label your clamps I always love haters
we always have this knot we always have
this on hand puzzle or a perfect DIY I'd
like to take on projects so what we're
going to do is just use the painters
tape use a sharpie and write the variety
name on the tape and then we're going to
take our little nifty toothpicks again
all we're going to do is put the tape
close to the top hold it in half and
there you have it a quick little tag
easy and affordable it's something
anyone can duplicate things everyone has
on hand so why not so now it's time to
put it in front of the window and let it
do its thing I don't know where I'm
gonna put it it's no more room over
there
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now that we've got it upstairs we're
just going to go ahead and clean it and
now that some of my seats are topping I
like to put them under the throw leg so
they get uniform growth that way also
they don't get little straggly stems and
they'll just make them a lot healthier
so now we're just going to test about
we're going to make sure the bulbs work
here those works so we're good there
okay I think we're going to put an order
in for a couple extra bulbs anyways on
gardeners this is where we got it they
love it
it grows amazing plants and you go there
you can take a look at what they got and
it was definitely worth every single
penny
it stayed beautiful and looks nice and
sturdy and what I love most is once you
grow indoors your seedlings and then
it's time to go ahead and plant them
outside you have to start hardening them
which means bringing the votes I've
heard a couple hours every single day
before planting them outside because you
don't want to put them into what's
called shock which could cause them to
wealth and die so what's really nice
about this is the meals as we're
starting to harden off our plants we
actually just roll this right outside
let it sit out for one to two hours and
then we bring it right back inside so
that way it makes it easy from
transferring your new plants indoors and
outdoors for the next few days of
hardening since these seedlings are
already up I don't like her to sit in
front of the window for too long
otherwise they start stretching and
become kind of leggy so because they'll
be under the grow lights they're
underneath the grow lights then they get
a better alternative lighting then
they'll be able to get a better plant
and then what you're in love do you're
gonna want to lower it usually only
wanted about four inches above your
ceiling I mean there's many ways of
doing it but that's the way I've always
done it and it works for us we end up
with great plants so now I pump get out
of Scipio once the ceilings pop up this
much that's when I take them out of the
ziplock container if you left them in
there any longer then they would stretch
from all the humidity and then they
would be shot this morning there was
nothing popping out of this tray so I
want to show you something there are a
lot that are popped up here so we had to
take him out of the germination chamber
so that way they don't stretch I have
quite a few seeds and different
varieties already started so if there
was anything that said that it needed
eight to ten weeks before the last frost
that's done now I'm going to be moving
on to the seeds that say that they need
to be seated six to eight weeks before
the last frost
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