Whether you purchase your seeds from a reputable company, save seeds from your own garden, or collect free seeds from ...

Most seeds are grown in seed trays or blocks, but at some point, these seedlings will outgrow their cell or block and require more soil for their roots to grow. In some cases, the weather aligns ...

Soil blocking is an environmentally friendly method to prep seedlings. The technique has captured the attention of serious ...

An alternate technique that’s less disruptive to seed depth is setting the vermiculite containers in a tray with water until the vermiculite has soaked up enough to become damp at the surface.

good-quality seed compost before sealing it and putting it in the fridge. Whichever method you plump for, make sure to remove the bag/tray as soon as you spot signs of germination. If you’re ...

Same thing for seed starters. Mazzocca's scatters seed trays with dozens of varieties of tomato pepper and tomato plants, basil, cilantro and a host of other crops, as well as flowers such as ...

The tool pushes out the packed soil blocks into neat rows, like an old-fashioned ice cube tray. Many in the class were drawn to soil blocking because it's an environmentally friendly method to ...

I find too often people starting out seeding for the first time buy one growing lamp to arc over their entire shelf of seedlings, when each tray needs 2000-5000 lumens (that's a lot of lumens).

You might be planning to buy rimmed trays, peat pots or compartmentalized ... Newspaper or cardboard work well, too You can even make seed pots from sheets of newspaper. Much of today’s ...