Starting Seeds Indoors for Your Spring Garden – 6 Mistakes to Avoid / Spring Garden Series #1
Starting Seeds Indoors for Your Spring Garden – 6 Mistakes to Avoid / Spring Garden Series #1
In this video, I share how to start your seeds indoors for your spring garden and 6 mistakes to avoid when seed starting. Get your spring garden started with me – it’s quick, simple and inexpensive (and FUN)! Let’s grow our garden together!
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Good informations
-Haiti🌈 …
Seems like you need a lot of space to put all those seeds and lights in
I’m from the Philippines and your videos are so helpful! I’m now growing pechay, beans, basil, lettuce, marigolds, chili peppers! I mix my own seeding mix and the popular here is cocopeat and worm casting combined. Kudos to your videos!🤩😍
Does anyone know anyone I can call for help? Its a first-time greenhouse…
I’m not sure what I do wrong ,no mater hiw many different methods.i try, my seeds either never come out,of they grow 1 inch up and stall!
I started two to three weeks ago pepper seeds in my garage, I only had a light on it. But my garage was still too cold. And I have a automatic water tray , where you filled up the bottom of the trays and there a small soaked up pad. I think I put too water and my garage was too cold. So I bought a seedling system with a light and heating mat. My question is, is it too late for my peppers to grow, should I start over with them
on my hubby’s account, but I am starting a garden this spring. My seedlings are looking pretty good and my peppers sprouted so I’m happy! This will be my first garden.
Is it worth it the💰 expending on electricity in relation to what you get at the end?🌿
How to grow healthy Chive.
Where can I find a list of what vegetables in what size pellets
Great job
Wonderful and useful video. Love your spirit ❤
Beautiful
When someone growing indoor only . Do you use potting mix for seedling then transplant into soil mix Or do you use only potting mix all along?
Just starting my gardening journey , loving the videos x
Really good video. Really like the way you explain everything in detail. Thank you.
This is not simple. And not cheap.
Clamp light: 2” from plants. On 16 hrs/day. Can use a timer for on/off. Bulb should have lumens 1500-3000, Kelvin 4500-6500 to mimic daylight.
Frustrated. Beautiful. Too over my head, I need a complete instruction A-Z.
Also if your seeds are not growing well and stall at one inch then you’re buying low quality seeds! People sometimes think all seeds are the same and buy the cheap .50 seeds! Make sure You go on amazon and read reviews first, if you’re buying in store download a QR reader app on your phone and then scan the UPC code of the seed packet and it will pull it up on the Internet usually on Amazon and You can read the reviews! I’ve found that seeds are usually double the price on Amazon unless you’re buying in bulk
Thanks for your watering tips
😯The fireplace 🔥 is stressing me out perched on stones that may be shaky or unstable 😨 that’s all I could think about 😂
How do you know when the plants have outgrown the peat pellet?
“Leave the grow light on for 16 hours and off for 6 hours” What do I do with my remaining 2 hours?
How lovely that you have 22 hours long days…:’)
Can I use a cotton tshirt to start the seeds?
super
What is the difference between indoor and outdoor potting mix? Can I use one for the other? Does it really matter that much?
When I cover the cups with cling film, at what stage do I make holes at the bottom of the cups?
What are the most important first steps to getting your garden started?
What do all gardens need to be successful?
Do you plant a garden at your house?
If yes, what do you plant?
If no, what would you plant if you had a garden?
this is my assignement can someone do this for me
wow beautiful guys thank for share I like your tv
Very Informative video. I did pick up a few tips. Learned about Peat Pellets. She was very good at speaking. Background and sound quality was good. Overall good video.
Leave the light on 16 hours on, 6 hours off, 2 hours ???
Are you expected to have them on a 22 hour circadian cycle?
Grrat video, it is so versatile that you can use such a compact space to establish this amazing looking garden…I subbed because of that.. Love how you describe your content..such an entertaining to watch…hello from Australia 💕💕💕🍓🍓🍓
i waited too late to start my seeds
… i will give it a try tho….
love your video had trouble growing with the pellets but im going to try it again. what does it mean when you get mold on the pots. I was watering them on the top. Could that be why. Also, is there a special water I should use on them. 🙂 Thank you.
I want to start a few plants only. Peppers, green beans , squash. What do I start these seeds in? And don’t growlights at Lowes have the correct lumens? I sleep 9 hours a day. What happens if the lights are on 15 hours only. Do you discourage seeds growing in a South exposure? Can you tell this is a new endeavor for me? I loved your blog. Thanks for the tips
I notice this video was made completely outdoors. Kind of defeats the point!
My onions and lettuce are very long and leggy. What am I doing wrong?
Helpful information, thank you !
If it’s already too hot for You to grow lettuce they grow very well in an aerogarden or you can get something that works just like the aerogarden for much cheaper on amazon, many different brands that come with nutrient solution and everything you need but water and seed! I got the 12 pod IDOO brand from amazon, a 12 pod aerogarden is $248 and up but I paid $75 for mine and it came with the nutrients, 12 pods, 24 sponges for the seeds to grow in and it’s also the tallest one I could find on amazon and it has a fan for pollination!! Just search hydroponic system on amazon and you’ll see tons of them and check amazon warehouse if you don’t have much money because I seen on there for $38!! If you’re someone who can’t grow things well and kill everything you touch then one of these systems will be your best friend! My plants grow 5X faster in this system too! Oh and if you get the IDOO 12 pod system then Aerogarden pods will fit it so if you really want it to be easy just get those and put them in and add nutrients and you are good to go!!
I ordered Peat pellets. As you suggested, and they got green Mossey/mold growth along the top of the peat pellets they are growing in. They are inside a seedling grow light box I made from this video. I leave the lightbox cracked open and was wondering how to avoid the green algae stuff that has grown on top of the Peat pellets – as they grow indoors under the lights? THANK YOU KIM
Hi Kim, I’ve been using those 24oz cottage cheese containers for years. We save them all winter, so when it’s time transplant squash, toms and peppers, I melt about 5 holes in the bottom with a heated nail and fill the pot with a good potting mix. Place my little baby seeds into a hole in the p mix. I place the pots in a tray of water for about 20 minutes, take them out and don’t mess with them again for about a week. They are starting to get nice tough leaves growing under my lights (6500K fluorescent tubes, 12 hours on, 12 hours off.) Today, being it’s cloudy and 72, I’ll put my biggest toms outdoors for about 45 minutes or a bit longer. They can get some fresh air too. I’m planning on their summer homes about the end of May, as well as squash, which I will seed toward the end of this month April. Being that the roots are still small, there should be little, if any transplant shock, and they should take off after being "hardened off" for a week or ten days. That’s my method. BTW — I hate those peet pots — they can get moldy. I use homemade newspaper cylinders filled with starter soil. The roots grow right through the paper
Thank you for the info! I am starting Bibb lettuce inside, although I put too many seeds in each section (used egg carton). I’ll have to thin them I imagine. Any suggestions on how to thin them?
heating pad is wonderful, almost 90% germination , potting mix with 20% coco , and leds after germination
My bushpickle, roma, hot peppers and sugar baby sprouted!! Should i take them off the heat mat now? I have them in a grow light box like yours.. Please advice. And thank you for your videos!!! So motivating and inspirational 🌱💙
Lady, with all due respect, if this is for beginners, I’m not spending money on peat pods and special lamps with lumens, etc. Just give me the bare, bare, bare basics for beginners, if its successful and I enjoy it and things are working, ya maybe I’ll invest $ in some equipment. I just want some ma or pa in their house with no agenda, trying to push sales of their seed collection, or buy special nursery seed potting soil that probably costs $15 a bag
Well dang, I already messed up with #1 and #2. Will I still have hope for my seeds?
life hack… place a nonbleached coffee filter in the bottom of your pot. it allows for drainage and keeps the soil from leaking out.