Ready to start something beautiful? 🌼 In this video, I’m planting a variety of flowers with soil blocks and reflecting on my 2025 gardening resolutions. This is more than just seed starting—Soil blocking, flower dreams, and setting intentions—it’s all here. Let’s grow something beautiful together, one seed at a time.
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Video where I test 4 different soil mixeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j_QBNdJr1w&list=PLSpldx7tGv21bxxuUC0t_JBpCPkr1pNRe&index=6
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14 Comments
My problem with planting bulbs in the fall is squirrels tend to dig them up while looking for walnuts they buried to eat during the winter. I found several bulbs with bites out of them laying in my flowerbed.
Hi Roxanne,
I have the same sifter and want that colorful tub you use. However. the link to it doesn't work.
🙋🏽♀️💦💧🪴LOVE HAND WATERING‼️💦💧🪴
I’m looking forward to your dahlias, showing some sign of life
I make a list on my iPhone in my Notes app. I just call it “Plants 2025”.
For scabiosa seeds in soil blocks, I "drill" a little pilot hole in each block with a toothpick and then gentle press the pointy end of the see into the hole.
Roxana will you need to pot up your soil block seedlings (in 2” pots or other) before you plant them out? Thanks!
Snapdragons are my favorite cut flower to grow! Agreed the seeds are so tiny, so this year I ordered some from Johnny’s that are pelleted!
I have found that heat mats cause the soil to dry out very quickly so be sure to check everyday. ❤
😂 I thought about the cleaning of pots/trays on your last vid. I was going to ask you what brush you use. I have and old glass cleaner brush. Last fall I filled up the wheelbarrow and let them soak and went to town scrubbing. It would be less daunting of a job if done through the season, but things get pretty busy and we tend to push them aside.
So you don’t use a humidity dome on blocks?
Any problems with gnats or mold?
Hmm, a list before going to the garden center 🤔…nah, wouldn’t work😂. It’s like I only needed a few seeds this year—😅that didn’t work either.
Despite what everyone out there says, in my own personal experience mountain mint will take over an area. It spreads by rhizome and by seed. Be sure to keep an eye on it! I removed it from an ornamental bed and put it in a wilder area where it can roam free.
I've been avoiding seed starting videos like the plague!😂 I started some lettuces and brassicas today, though! Now I'm feeling so behind.😮 I haven't ordered any cut flower seeds, ANY seeds actually. But I thought I would start with whatever I have on hand. I can get my beds prepped and ready while I wait for seed orders to arrive and the seeds to sprout. Fingers crossed 🤞🏾
Hi Roxanna, love my mountain mint in my native garden. Great for pollinators, easy to grow, easy to contain, easy to transplant. Stays evergreen in 6b PA. I think it’s slender mountain mint, but lost the tag. Yes, tags are needed.
I also need to order my bulbs early. When you order maybe you could mention it as a reminder to us. I also need to take video and pictures of my garden. 🌼🐝