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Seed starting Supplies (What you need to be ready to START YOUR GARDEN!)

Mar 05, 2024
Hey guys,

what

's up? Welcome back to Roots around Peach Farm if you're new here. My name is Jess. I'm very glad you're here. If you are not new here. I'm also glad you're here. First of all. I'm going to apologize for the bovine accompaniment in this video. I've tried pointing the camera in the other direction. The guys are currently getting them a new bale of hay, so they're going to make some noise here next time. kinda, I can't wait to record the video because I have to get my kids out of school, real life, Farm Life content creation.
seed starting supplies what you need to be ready to start your garden
In fact, I just went to my greenhouse to put together a list and thought it would be great information to share. I'm currently just a few weeks away from

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ing my

seed

s for 2023 and for the

garden

this year and today I want to go over the things I make sure I have on hand for when I'm

ready

to

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the

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s. I have

what

I

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, of course, you can always go to a local store and buy seed

supplies

, but in my opinion, the things that are available in big box stores are not necessarily the best products to use, so I think.
seed starting supplies what you need to be ready to start your garden

More Interesting Facts About,

seed starting supplies what you need to be ready to start your garden...

It's in their best interest to think about this a few weeks in advance, so if they

need

to order something, they can't. First, I want to talk a little bit about

starting

from seeds because some of you may be deciding to start

your

garden

from seeds. For the first time, it's totally worth it. I am a big advocate of gardeners growing from seed, even if you are a new gardener, although there is merit in going and buying started plants and I still buy some started plants and don't grow them. exclusively from seeds. I think growing from seed reduces the investment and in doing so reduces the risk so if you turn everything around you know maybe you have a hundred dollar budget to start

your

garden and you're going to spend it all on plants and if you make a mistake. and they die, then you've lost a much bigger investment, whereas if you start with seeds you're losing a lot less money and if you have a hundred dollar budget you can get a lot more out of your garden with seeds instead of going out and buying started plants, so I have some great blog posts covering this topic and what I'm talking about today, so there will be links to that below if you want to save it, bookmark it, explore roots and refuge.com.
seed starting supplies what you need to be ready to start your garden
I have put a lot of information in blog form because I know that some people learn better by reading. Oh well, here comes the hay bill. It's also really nice if you know that when I have a thousand videos or whatever, I don't have to go through them again. them to try to find specific information by going through the blog posts a little easier, so I have information on how to start seeds. I'm going to walk you through that process as I start mine and the reason I'm putting this video up now is because now is when I'm thinking okay, I need to get my

supplies

together so you can get them in real time and being in the zone eight, I'm probably doing this before many of you this year.
seed starting supplies what you need to be ready to start your garden
If you're not sure when you need to start your seeds, the first thing you should do is go to the search engine and type in the estimated last frost date for your zip code or the nearest major city. Well, I have to show you all this. I know this isn't gardening related, but come on, who doesn't love to see a group of cows running through the field, oh, and horses, oh, there's a couple of dogs mixed in there and maybe some alpacas, go after hey bill? They are very happy, back to the topic at hand, that is the date of my last frost which will be based on previous climate records in your region, it is just an estimate, it is not rock solid, the weather does not allow us to know what it will be done in advance, we just have to gather the information and yes, but you can start planting based on the estimated last frost date, so once you have the estimated last frost date, you will need to write it down if you want. a notebook or a journal, something you're planning on, maybe you're doing your planning on your phone or a spreadsheet, your estimated last frost date is like a guaranteed starting point and you're going to work from there, um, next one.
What you need to do is write down what you want to grow in your garden this year. This video could get very long and very complicated if I tried to talk about all the details of the different things I wrote. Really good book that covers this in more depth. I have a lot of content on this and like I said, if you just want to watch and work with me, if we have similar last frost dates or if you want to do some work. behind me keeping in mind okay, she started this eight weeks before this six weeks before this three weeks before I'll show you as I go what I'm doing so you don't have to have it all figured out I like to start my peppers and my eggplants about eight weeks before my estimated last frost date, so what I'll do is count backwards and then I'll write that date in there.
I'm getting really close to that um now where I am, which is why am I gathering my seed supplies? I like to prepare my tomatoes about six weeks before the estimated last frost date. The reason I don't go much before that is because the freeze could be bad, we may get to the day I anticipate planting and I look at the 10 day forecast and see we still have a freeze in the forecast. I like to start my plants in two and a half inch pots or similar cups or something like that and once they are about six to eight weeks old, they get a little big for them, and at that point, if I can't get them outside, I have They have to figure out what to do with them or they will start to suffer.
You don't want to be in a position where you have a bunch of plants that you have to pot up and store indoors because you can't plant them outside yet, so it's best to plan around the last frost. The date is based on how fast things grow and in my experience peppers and eggplants take a little longer to germinate, they grow a little slower, so I do eight weeks with them and six weeks with tomatoes . I also start some flowers and herbs four to six weeks before the last frost and then things like cucumbers, squash, melons, sunflowers, maybe even other flowers like zinnias and marigolds, uh, borage, a lot of the other things that They are grown in the summer garden.
I have a very long growing season because my last frost date is like April and then my estimated first frost date is like the end of October so I have a 200 day season. In fact, I prefer to directly sew those things because, in my experience, it's easier, less work, and for the most part. things work very well if you're going to start those things in pots, I would do it three weeks, maybe four weeks tops, before transplant time because all those things grow a little faster and certain things, like pumpkins, in In particular, they don't. They like their roots to be disturbed so if you're going to put them in pots you want to make sure they don't get their roots stuck in there because if something gets stuck in the roots and then you have to break it up to repot it.
It can be very complicated, so you can start with all that other stuff, but that will be three to four weeks before the last frost date just to make sure they don't get stuck and if you live somewhere you like it. There's a lot of bug pressure in early spring, you may have to start potting them up where you can protect them and get them out, and that's completely fine, but you should also know that in many places you can straight up sew those things with great results. I started all that. I started tubers from seeds inside.
I think there may be great reasons to do it with successive stitching and if you're going to try to maximize your production, but for the sake of this video. I'm mainly talking to the new gardener who is just starting seeds and I think he should focus on the things that really need to be started early just to give him a jump in the seat, like tomatoes and eggplants. and the peppers, maybe herbs, some flowers and then the other things again, about three or four weeks. I think that's enough to focus on instead of trying to start absolutely everything from seed, so write down your last frost date, write down what you want to grow and then write down how many weeks in advance you plan to start those dates, calculate those dates moving back from the last frost date and you now have your seed starting schedule.
It's very simple, it's not black and white if it's almost the frost date now and you haven't started tomatoes. Don't panic, if you have a long enough season you can still grow them, we start things early because when the season passes frost, if we can put good-sized plants in our garden, we will be much closer. to get the harvest and therefore we are extending our season by starting sowing the seeds early. I started tomatoes mid-season and took them out and only ate tomatoes I picked later, you haven't missed that. your chance if you don't sow your tomato seeds six weeks before your last frost, but I say that's probably the earliest you want to start them and if you want to maximize your season that's when you want to do it.
I'm coming. over here because the sun is Mars today I don't have my supplies to show you but I'm going to tell you about them. I'm going to put pictures up on the screen the reason I don't have my supplies is because I'm making my list right now, there are some things I'm going to have to order, there are some things I have to get out of storage. I am putting them on my list and we are currently working on the shelving for the The greenhouse is being worked on in the barn and is getting

ready

to move here so I can't get all my stuff into my greenhouse but I didn't want to wait until I had it because I didn't want you to be behind. on how to get the information, the first thing you'll need to start your garden with seeds, obviously, seeds.
I get so many questions about this because of some misunderstandings in the information, people worry that they like to buy bad seeds or buy seeds from the wrong place, one of the biggest pieces of misinformation is people saying oh I want to make sure Do not obtain transgenic seeds. It's not legal to sell GMO seeds to consumers, and while there's an argument that things can be cross-pollinated and all that, you're not going to go somewhere and accidentally buy GMO seeds, if something is labeled non-GMO, it's not because There are other seeds that are GMO that are sold to consumers, it is simply because the seed companies I get asked a lot if these seeds are non-GMO, they just go ahead and put it on the label.
It's like when I remember seeing a package of oranges in the store one time and it said gluten free and anyone who really knows what gluten is knows that. that there are no oranges in the store that contain gluten, so it wasn't really necessary to label them, but sometimes labeling isn't really out of necessity, so you won't buy GMO seeds, so don't worry about that. It's true, I like to support seed companies that do things for the home gardener. I like to show off smaller businesses instead of large conglomerates necessary, but I'm a big believer in growing the seeds you have access to, so if the seeds you have access to are from the dollar store, they're from Walmart, they're from big box stores. they are from your neighbor's shoebox that they saved from their Papaw that they save seeds from a seed bank from any store you go online and buy seeds you grow the seeds you have access to now I Personally, I have places favorites to buy seeds.
I just made a great unboxing video a few weeks ago. I placed a large order of seeds at my gardener. Luke actually provides the coupon code for my viewers, his name is, he's just tin and he gets you. 10 off he seeds are already really affordable, so that's probably my first place to go. My botanical interests are another venture I really like. They offer a solid product, of course, I have been using Baker Creek seeds for a long time. I love your selection. I like to receive tomato seeds from Brad Gates at Wild Boar Farms. In fact, I just scheduled a phone call with Brad and we're talking about offering a special roots and haven favorites package, so I'm working on something with that and the future with him, so we should have that information here very soon, but I have grown all kinds of seeds.
I actually order seeds from different companies all the time and I don't necessarily make videos about it just because I see something I want to try and I'd like to see their customer service, see their packaging. I really love the seats, my seed collection is big. I give away a lot of seeds and for me there is nothing that makes me feel so rich, safe and excited. It's like having seats, there's just something about having a lot of seeds that makes me feel like I've made a wonderful investment and I love havinglots of seats, so those are my favorites.
I'll put links to them below again. I have a lot of content on that that you can find just by searching for roots and shelter and the topic you want to search for you don't have to have seeds packaged for this year, that's something that people will misunderstand because it requires seed companies. to put an expiration date on their seeds because by law you have to package and sell seeds for that year and the following year you can no longer sell those seeds. The seeds are good for many years. I have seeds that are 10 years old.
I grow crops regularly in my garden. If you keep them cool and dry you won't actually lose much germination, the germination rate can slow down a little over time especially if they are not kept cool and dry, but I have seen some people grow some very old seeds and I mean, I still have seeds that I'll find in my seed collection, sometimes I try to grow them. them as much as possible so they don't spoil, but they are several years old and are from the Dollar Tree. A friend of mine bought a bunch of packets of seeds for about 10 cents each and there have been plants from those seeds in My Garden every year since then so they are still doing well and that's also why I say just grow the seeds you have, save them , sharing them, sharing the love of seeds is like one of the best parts of gardening because gardeners love to share that and eventually you will learn to save them and there will never be a shortage of seeds again.
Also, probably if you get all these seeds from seed companies, there is information on the seed packet and sometimes they will answer that question of like how many weeks in advance should you start them, sometimes it's vague so you can go by the information general that you find online. Next, you will need some type of container to place the seeds. I started using red Solo cups. cups from the store um and we were at the time in youth ministry and there were always parties like Super Bowl parties and different things like that and there were always all these red cups Just and there was a lot of waste that I don't I don't love having a lot of plastic waste , so I would pick them up, wash them and then we would stack them in a big pile and run a drill bit through the end to drill a hole in all of them at once and that's what I used for seeds for years, they decay after maybe the second season.
I would reuse them, but they start to get very brittle, but I mean, if you recycle them from a party, you're already giving them a second life. using them once, the downside to using red Solo cups is that they are usually like a 12 ounce container, so it will require more soil in the front, but that's not necessarily that bad, giving them results in big, healthy plants. so much space, so I'm still in favor of using the red Solo cups, especially if you can reuse them now. I usually use a two and a half inch pot from bootstrap farmer and they make pots of which 32 of them fit in one of their 10 by 20 trays and I really like them because they last for years so I have some farmer's cups that I've been using for four seasons and if I'm going to use a plastic product, I'd really like to use it. a plastic product that is durable, other options you can use are peat pots, which are biodegradable.
I don't like these for new gardeners because keeping moisture in them can be a little difficult and keeping moisture in is a very important part. As for seed starting success, I usually avoid them as a suggestion for new gardeners. If I'm going to use peat pots, I use them for things like melons, squash, and cucumbers that I'm starting, maybe like three or four. weeks before my last frost date because that's a lot less time I have to regulate them as I only need them to work for me for a few weeks, if they start to decay early it's no big deal and then you can just remove them from the ground around your plant and plant them without disturbing them so they serve a good purpose, but as for starting all your seeds in peat pots, I don't really recommend that there are other products that do. available as the small um cells that expand.
I have played with them. I bought them at the store and played with them. I don't hate them, but I don't think they're necessarily the best. product and especially for a person who is new, I think just getting a plastic cup, reusing a yogurt container, reusing some type of container that you can cut a hole in the bottom of, will be much easier to regulate or buy obviously dedicated seeds. When starting with pots, those expandable cells can dry out very easily, they just look weird in the humidity and also, in my experience, the envelope around them doesn't completely break down when you put them in the garden, you have to cut them, so I don't feel like you're gaining much to the extent that you're still wasting some kind of non-biodegradable material and you still have the hassle of having to do it.
I just don't think that they offer enough benefits to outweigh the cons, another thing that I've used in the past, which are like these polythene type bags, you can buy them on Amazon for a really cheap price for a bunch of them. I've started planting in them like Well, and while I don't necessarily think they're the bees knees, I think they're still non-paper waste, there's actually some plastic in it when I first bought it it said biodegradable. I thought it was paper, it's actually not truly biodegradable. it doesn't really break down that well, but they are very affordable and I think if you can't afford to buy a bunch of pots and maybe you can't even afford to go get cups and fill them with Sow seeds in those little bags of soil, I think which is a more viable option than some of the other cheaper things, because you can start with them.
I suggest that if you use those bags, you fill them with soil and put them in some type of tray because They will need watering at the bottom because they dry out very quickly and then when you go to plant them, don't plant those bags, cut them up and plant them. You know the roots of your plant without that bag because those bags don't. In my experience, they decompose well enough to plant, so you need some type of container. I mentioned reusing things. You can reuse any type. I've seen people like yogurt cups. I'm talking about all kinds of small plastic containers, like sour cream containers. you can start with seeds and things like that.
Keep in mind that using a larger container will require more soil, so if you end up using a lot of large containers and have to spend a lot more money on soil, you may not have done it. I saved money by reusing things so you know it's a personal choice but I mean it works well. I've seen some similar things online where people use egg cartons and toilet paper rolls and newspaper cans and things like that. These are viable. Try doing that, keep in mind that smaller containers will dry out quicker and the natural fiber is like cardboard or paper, you'll just have to be a lot more careful that the soil doesn't dry out, you can totally use it. those things do know that anything like a tomato plant, an eggplant, or a pepper, once it reaches more than this height, its root system will be substantial.
A plant's root system is much larger than what can be seen above ground, so If you started all your tomatoes as an egg carton, that's not enough room for the roots, you'll need at least that much room. This is super scientific, but you will need a substantial amount of space for a plant. that's actually transplantable so you could start them in an egg carton but you'll have to move them up before it's time to take them out and then the last thing is to block the soil. This is something I have done to block the floor. is where you buy a special tool that actually compacts the soil and blocks them into trays and you can sow seeds in them.
I like to block the land. I think it's really good. I start many more plants than I plant because I sell or give them away. Remove them and I have never exclusively blocked the soil because I need some type of container to transplant the plants in, so if you are just starting your seeds for your personal use, definitely look into blocking the soil, that is not something I do. I'm going to do it in general because it just doesn't serve my purposes, so next and this goes along with the containers. I like to use trays. I'm going to have to put a picture on the screen.
I'm still looking for my things. To show you, I like to use bottom watering trays, so whenever I plant seeds in containers, I like to put those containers on a tray. Now you don't have to buy specific bottom watering trays. The ones I use are from Bootstrap Farmer. Regarding 10 20 trays, I will link them and again, this type of thing is a small investment, but you can reuse them season after season, especially if you are diligent about cleaning them and not storing them in the sun. It's just going to last a lot longer, but you can expect years of use out of these things if you take care of them, but you can improvise and try to find some other type of container that just holds water if you're using things like the red Solo cups, which you can do.
It's drilling a hole in a cup and then putting a marble and a second cup and putting the first cup in it so you basically have a kind of reservoir for the water. I like the reason for this. I bottom water into trays because I can pour the water directly into the tray and it never rains water on my plants, which just helps them stay healthier and alleviates splashing. It forces the roots to go deeper when you water the bottom because they go down into the water. which is good and we want to encourage strong root systems and lastly, I live in a place that gets very hot, very fast.
I am starting to sow my seeds in a greenhouse and thanks again, I start to dry out very quickly, especially when the plants start to get bigger, so I like to have water at the bottom of the body is an option because it is a reservoir at that they can have access to more water when I first start planting. I don't fill those tanks and leave them, I usually water them a little and let them soak. Remove it and give them a chance to let the soil dry out a bit. Some people will deal with root rot fungus gnats and things like that if you put too much water in at the beginning, but it is a good option when the plants grow then you will need some type of medium to place in your container so that have your seeds, have your containers, maybe have a bottom watering option if you decide to go that route next.
I need some type of growing medium, i.e. your soil or whatever you are using to grow. There are soilless media, like things that you mix with peat moss or cocoa kernel or whatever. I've learned that the way I do it. This is a little different than what a lot of people suggest, so when you go to the store during seed starting time, you will see seed starting mixes, there are different brands of this. I think Jiffy has a brand and um Pro mix has a brand and they will say seed starting mixes and sometimes they will say on the package half sterile or half soilless.
I don't use them, um, I have nothing against them and a lot of people prefer to use them because essentially They are very, very fine, they are very easy to work with texture-wise, they are very pretty, the thing is that they do not contain any nutrients , so if you start your seedlings in a soilless mix or a seed starting medium that doesn't have some type of nutrition and it will say if it has fertilizer, most seed starting mixes, even though those seedlings are not going to emerge, They're going to use up all the energy they've stored in their seeds and then they're going to stop growing or they're going to start turning yellow, so if you've ever tried to sow seeds before and you think: I don't know what happened, they just stopped growing if you were using a seed starting mix. it was probably because they are starving, the reason people like to use soilless mixes or seed starting media is because they are very very fine, you don't need to sift anything and being sterile they don't have any flavor. mushrooms or whatever and you could still end up getting mosquitoes because you know they've been in warehouses or whatever.
I don't, I personally don't see the appeal for me. I'm a bit of a lazy gardener. I like it. Reduce stepping stones where you can, but people who use them professionally are planting lots of small seedlings on them and then planting them in potting mix or feeding them some type of liquid fertilizer on that seed starting. so what I like to do is start with a potting mix and that's where I start my season. My favorite brand of potting mix is ​​called bacto. I have no affiliation with this company and in fact, I noticed that last year the bacto bags I received were not on par in quality with what I got from them in years prior to the gardening post.
Rush has changed the quality of many gardening products because this just happened. Massive demand on a supplylimited. I'm planning on using bacto again this year if for some reason I feel like, um, it was still too thick, that's what. I had a bunch of non-decomposed pieces, I just sorted them out. and I used what was left over but if I felt the quality was still lacking I could look for something else but I still feel that as far as organic potting mix goes it is the best I have found where I live for the price. period I'm paying for it so here I'm paying something like 10 to 12 dollars a bag like the 50 pound bag for bacto um don't spend forty dollars a bag somewhere on bacto just because I said it was good , I wouldn't spend forty dollars on it.
I'd probably try something different. The main thing is that you want some kind of media. I like to make potting mix. You will have to sift out the large pieces, but it has nutrients. and it has some type of fertilizer, it's decomposed branches, so it has a lot of nitrogen, different things in it and it's going to feed your seedlings different regions have different brands and I've started sowing seeds in a lot of different things. I have sorted seeds from major brands that are not organic. I have started sowing seeds and everything I could get my hands on. hands on at different times now I have a place where I can buy by the pallet.
I can get a lot of seeds to start with it, that's great, but if it wasn't available to me I would just look for another potting mix and develop a preference, so I give you the freedom to develop preferences, start with a bag of something, yes If you don't like the texture, it has big lumps, or you don't feel like it's broken down, look for another bag from a different brand. I like to use organic because that's important to me. You don't have to sow your own seeds in conventional soil, it's better than not sowing your own seeds at all, so don't make it super black and white, which you don't want.
What you need to do to sow your seeds is start them in pure compost as it can be too dense, it can be too hot to the point of having too high levels of nitrogen and your seeds will struggle and I like to suggest that people don't buy them. in bags. Garden soil potting mix has elements that make it lighter and more draining and usually has some type of fertilizer in it and that's why I like to start with seeds and potting mix. Garden soil is usually much denser and thicker, and many times it doesn't have those elements to help it drain, so if you sow your seeds in garden soil, there is a good chance that soil will become compacted in those cups. and then your seedlings may have a hard time developing their root system because when they start they have these super fine thread roots that really need a loose mix to be able to grow freely.
I've had people argue with me about it before saying they start with garden soil, so obviously you can sow seeds in the garden and that works. okay, but we're talking about ideal and I don't think garden soil is ideal if you've already bought garden soil or compost or something that you think is too dense, it feels too dense and thick too and you want to lighten it up, you can buy it as perlite, um, you can buy cocoa kernel and mix them together to lighten it because that's what potting mix typically is, it's soil that has some type of compost mix in it as well as something like perlite and cocoa kernel that will lighten it and make it It will drain a little more easily then so the things you will need to start sowing we need to consider what seeds need to grow so have a draining pot filled with growing medium and you are going to put your seeds in there which is great, they need it, but then they will need heat and light, so what prevents a seed from sprouting when it is in the little seed packet is that it is cold and dry if at some point it were constantly moistened in that seed packet and, if If it were given a measure of heat, it would just sprout right there in that seed packet and of course it would shrivel up and die because it wouldn't have the seeds it needed.
They will actually fall from the plants and remain in the ground during the winter, but they may even have moisture in that situation, but since it is cold they remain inactive and it is when they are given heat and humidity that they begin to grow, like a person who is going to When you start sowing you need to consider how you are going to provide heat and moisture to your seeds obviously I have a greenhouse and this is where I start sowing by closing the greenhouse making it up appropriately. I keep the temperature here, obviously capturing. sunlight provides warmth and there is plenty of light here for them, if you don't have a situation where you can create warmth and light in something like a greenhouse you can still sow seeds, you just have to do these things artificially, so there is multiple products. that you can buy particularly heat mats and grow lights now there is a range of costs that you can invest in and this will of course vary widely depending on what you are trying to do but if you have a small garden and you are just trying to plant a handful of seeds, you can get one that grows light and put it somewhere like a garage or, if you can keep it warm enough, or a basement or a closet that you don't necessarily want to have like a grow light installed all the time in your living room because it can be bad for your eyes to have it on constantly, so you want to keep it in an enclosed space that you can keep isolated from people.
I've even seen people put them under the table and then cover them with something so you have a sort of rotten hangover. You can be super clever here. I have a really big grow light that I like. I have tried many. them and I actually found that they all work pretty well and I also just made a fluorescent shop light so like a long shop light you have to keep your seedlings a little bit closer to that but it works so you can actually use all amount of things for your grow light. I think buying a specific grow light that has all the different colors of lights will probably provide the healthiest light for your plant, but the store light works great and if you're just doing it by starting seed, well you're talking six to eight weeks of use, it's probably just as good, like a lot of times when you turn on and see those super expensive grow lights that are for people who grow things under those lights like they're fully growing.
Planting your whole life under those lights is not necessarily for seed starting as all those different color ranges matter so much so you can get away with a lot of different things for seed starting because really you're making these plants work. then you'll harden them off and move them outside where they'll get the Sun for most of their life, and put them into production so you don't have to worry about it as much, that's really going to be more determined by your budget, so if you want to buy a really great grow light, that's awesome, but if you want to get by with a shop light, you can do that too when it comes to heat mats.
Those are not always necessary, usually room temperature. The inside of a house is warm enough for seeds to grow, so if you keep your house at about 70 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about 23 degrees Celsius, I think that's fine, since the seeds will grow at that temperature. faster and they will germinate faster in heat, so what a lot of people like to do is put their seeds in and put them on top of their refrigerator somewhere where it's warm and as soon as possible. As they appear, they take them and place them under the grow light. I like heat mats, especially for sprouting things like peppers, and sometimes I even put heat mats in my greenhouse because it gets a little cooler at night, it's not always the case. 70 degrees in the greenhouse and that way I can get them to germinate but then I remove them after germination, they don't need them to keep warm after the fact it's really just to warm the soil so I'll also put a link to some heat mats or something, but no, I've seen people come up and ask in Facebook groups, they say which one should get light or heat.
I can only afford good light, your plants won't. They won't thrive without light, but they will grow more slowly without heat, so you'll need something to water your seedlings. This isn't something I've bought anything specific for, obviously, whenever I have a bunch of seedlings going into the greenhouse. I like the bottom water pans and I take a sprayer with a hose and put them right in there and fill it up. If you're doing these things at home, of course, you'll need some type of tray. under your pot so they don't leak on your carpet, but what I've always used in my house is like water bottles that I fill or something that I can easily pour water into.
I don't think you need any type. of special product for that um, the last thing I think is very important, this is not something that you need to buy, but it is something that you eventually have to prepare for so that the seed starts to be successful and you just have to be very attentive because you are talking about small seedlings that can honestly wither and die within a day of drying out too much. I think the number one reason people fail at sowing seeds is simply because they are negligent and it is easy to be negligent because you are taking on the care of a living being that you are not used to taking care of, so it is easy to forget, so So be prepared to set alarms on your phone and take time every day to check it. your seedlings now you will probably be excited, you may not even need them.
I mean, I plant my seedlings and check on them 30 minutes later, knowing they haven't sprouted at that point, but it can be difficult in the moment. starting out, especially if you're sowing your seeds in a basement that you don't go to every day or if you know that outside in a greenhouse that you don't necessarily go to every day, so set an alarm and make sure they have access to enough light, which basically means that if you're trying to sow your seeds in a window and they start to lean too much, you're going to be very diligent about rotating those glasses several times a day to make sure they're getting equal light exposure, whatever you do. , you will have to be attentive, but you can totally do it.
Starting seeds is not difficult and if you have these basic things I have listed to get started, that is enough. Now, later on, if your seeds are going to be in pots for six to eight weeks, you will probably need some type of liquid fertilizer. I usually use an organic liquid fertilizer from Neptune's Harvest, which is really great, just pour a little on. Water and feed your plants because there's a limited amount of nutrients and, well, small pots of soil, as the plant grows, it will run out, but you don't really need it to start with, that's probably not even necessary.
It will be necessary until about four to six weeks after planting, but yes, that's really all you need are seeds, a medium pot to hold them, some type of tray or something to store them in if you don't want water running everywhere, light and heat. However, you end up providing that and something to help you remember to take care of them and you should be successful. I have killed many seedlings, that is true, but I have brought many more to maturity and it is something I believe. Even the beginning gardener can do it, it can save him a lot of money and it can open up a world of options.
I think it adds a lot of excitement and flavor to gardening. I love starting to plant. I'm counting the days until they start planting. I know you are excited too and I can't wait to share it with you. Thanks for hanging out with me today. God bless you until next time.

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