Timestamps. Here are 4 seed starting mix recipes you can use for growing any garden plants. You can use this indoors to start seeds or outdoors. I cover the ingredients, the mix ratios, and make all the mixes in real time
12 Perennial Flowers, Herbs, & Edible Plants to Start Indoors Now (Seed Starting Class E-1) https://youtu.be/CNnaLAORoUA
0:00 Buying Mix in a Bag – Convenient but Pricey
0:44 Seed Starting Mixes Have the Same Basic Ingredients
1:34 Yes… You Do Want a Sterile Seed Starting Mix – Here’s Why
2:00 Where Do Fungus Gnats Come From? and Cure
2:57 Basic Ingredient 1 – Coco Core
3:58 Basic Ingredient 2 – Peat Moss
4:14 Basic Ingredient 3 – Very Fine Vermiculite
4:26 Basic Ingredient 4 – Perlite (Not a Must Have)
4:57 Don’t Add Dry Organic Fertilizer – Here’s Why
5:16 Preparing the Coco Coir with Boiling Water
7:43 Preparing the Peat Moss with Boiling Water
9:10 How to Measure Ingredients Using ‘Equal Parts’
9:50 Making Recipe 1 and 2 – Peat Based
11:34 Making Recipe 3 – Peat and Coir Based
13:21 Perlite is For More Drainage and Optional
14:35 Making Recipe 4 – Coco Coir Based
16:55 You Can Add Worm Castings
17:48 The 4 Starting Mixes Up Close and Recap
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I'm in 8b, Alabama, and I usually start plants inside in February, and plant in April. Is it possible to start too early? If I started my tomatoes and peppers now, would that be detrimental when I plant them in April? Thank you. I'd love to be able to plant them when they're much farther along by starting them now, but most guides I read say to start 6-8 weeks before the last frost. Thank you
Thank you for the videos Gary always appreciated
QUESTION: Would you change anything when working with compacted Clay outdoors?
Boil, boil, boil. Gary is serious. You don't want fungal gnats. They are very hard to get rid of.
Is there any reason you would choose any one home made recipe over another? Or is all just a matter of resource availability and price?
Here again is just my silly question I still can't seem to get my head around. Say you buy a seed-starting mix that contains compost (such as Johnny's 512 mix). It also has peat, so of course I would want to sterilize it before using to start seeds in order to avoid those fungus gnats. This I understand. But it also seems to me that the nutrition in the compost ingredient would be eliminated by using the boiling water. Is that correct, and if so, why would it be sold as a wonderful seed-starting medium? I see that other compost-containing seed-starters besides the 512 are available, but I am wondering why if the efforts to sterilize before use negates the compost nutrition benefit. Thank you so much Gary for your garden wisdom.
Where do you buy the vermiculite?
Great video Gary I like both the coco coir and peat moss. I like the perlite for the drainage. I purchase the large blocks from Amazon.
Informative video! I bought peat moss on sale for $2.50 a bag on clearance at Home Depot! I couldn’t believe my luck. They also had potting mix for $1.90. I feel like I stole something 😂😂 My seed starting mix is going to cost less than $10!!
Great info !
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Can these mixes be used for germinated seeds via the paper towel method?
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Looking forward to the blog post – but in my area, peat and peat based products are the easiest to find and the least expensive. I use the Jiffy Mix (12 qts at about $6 a bag) when it doesn't make sense to make larger quantities (small backyard) – but I add vermiculite to that with worm castings when it's cool. Goes a long way for brassicas in early spring. For summer vegs, I go full bore with the 2.5 cubic ft peat – vermiculite, and worm castings. I start several hundred seeds each spring and through the summer and I've had super success with this method.
Retention of water is what you focus on, and this is how I killed all of my plants. I had drainage the last time I was growing, but what happened was I neglected to protect my plants.
The point of drainage is to allow water to escape soil, so if this does not happen then the soil's moisture level can increase then causing plant roots to rot do to drowning in water.
I believe it is a gamble to use something that can retain water in soil. Regarding myself I did not use anything to retain water do to me overlooking not protecting my plants from mother nature's rain. Anyway lesson learned for me.
Balancing nutrients hmmm. Do you ever try to grow something, and it does not fully develop, or maybe it becomes sick, or perhaps it eventually rots?
I think it's very easy to screw up when growing plants.
Now I have a new set of seeds, and a verity as well, so the next time I try to grow plants well I am going to be more cautious.
Where did you find a bag of very fine vermiculite? Amazon?
Fantastic! I haven’t had luck with the coco coir based starting mixes that don’t also have peat moss. I’d love to see a video about a potting up mix.
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