👩🏻‍🌾 Starting Seeds Indoors | BALCONY VEGETABLE GARDEN | Container Gardening Small Spaces S2 PART 1

Story # 48: Season 2 (2024) Part 1 of my small balcony vegetable garden series. In this video I start seeds indoors, and reflect on some of the mistakes I made last gardening season and the changes I am making this year for a successful germination and harvest. Container gardening and growing a small vegetable garden in my balcony!
Video style: Slow living, relaxing, silent vlog.

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00:00 Vlog Preview
00:34 Video Starts
01:51 Sow Right Seeds (10% OFF CODE: SLOWLIFE10)
03:27 Seeds I Will Grow
05:13 Soil
08:23 Sowing Seeds
11:29 Cleaning Up

👩🏻‍🌾 PLAYLIST Balcony Vegetable Garden: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJg6-DnYLR2L0EIDnOIN2qnBeJQS_m9xS

Season 1-Part 1 👩🏻‍🌾 Small Balcony Vegetable Garden Series | Garden Planning & Sowing Seeds | Container Gardening: https://youtu.be/y0P_5I8vgkA

Season 1-Part 2 👩🏻‍🌾 Growing a VEGETABLE GARDEN on a SMALL BALCONY | Transplanting, DIY Trellis & Raised Bed: https://youtu.be/nZzHZP7fIrU

Season 1-Part 3 👩🏻‍🌾Vegetable Garden in My SMALL BALCONY | First Harvest, Tour & Fails | CONTAINER GARDEN: https://youtu.be/jTiIWcw_SlU

Season 1-Part 4 👩🏻‍🌾 From SEED to TABLE | Small BALCONY Container Vegetable GARDEN | The Final Harvest: https://youtu.be/ksRitBscoV0

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Hello and welcome! I’m super excited because gardening season is finally here! this is season 2 of my balcony garden series, and today I’m starting some seeds indoors this year, I want to bring you along every step of this balcony gardening journey and share many more details than I did last season

I think it will be a good way for both of us to learn about what’s working for me and what doesn’t… I had planned to do a medicinal/herbal/tea garden this year but I changed my mind… I just have so many seeds from last year and I want to give them another chance…

I also had an heirloom seeds company reach out and ask if I wanted to try their seeds the name is Sow Right Seeds, in Greenwood Missouri they were so kind to send me all of these seeds! (this is not sponsored, they simply asked me to try their seeds)

And gave me a 10% discount code: SLOWLIFE10 (link in description) all of their seeds are non-GMO, open pollinated heirlooms and they have a ton of unique varieties as you can see, I have too many seeds to limit myself to an herbal garden… maybe next year!

I’m not going to plant them all though… I wish I could, but I have to be realist about my space I’m selecting the ones I want to plant this season based on the space they need to grow Sow Right Seeds have sent me lots of varieties that are suitable for container gardening

This is my selection from Sow Right Seeds to grow this year I’m also growing some that I have stored since last year… these are the ones I’ve chosen next step is to sort out the seeds that need to be sowed indoors now

And put away the ones that will be sowed directly outside after the last frost day you can find this information in the seeds packaging these are the seeds I’ll sow today! let’s label them… one of the things I’m doing differently this year is that I’m not starting seeds in compost

I sowed them in a mix of seed starting soil and compost last year, and my seedlings looked so sad I was doing some reading and came to the conclusion that maybe it’s not a good idea to start them in compost although I’ve seen many gardeners who do, and actually have great success

It’s hard to know what to follow when the recommendations are so contradictory and what works for some doesn’t work for others I’m using two different brands of seed starting soil, and mixing them up they’re both organic… that was Bella.. this year I have to be more careful of the moisture in the soil

I have to find the right balance of keeping it moist and avoid soaking it… that could’ve been one of my mistakes last season if you’re new to my channel, I will link my balcony garden series and of course, I’m planting more than I will need in case some of them don’t germinate

I will thin them out later and keep the strongest seedlings… this year I got a heating mat I know it will help with germination I only got one though, so I will use it for this tray that has tomatoes and peppers

Out of all the seeds I sowed today, chamomile and strawberries are the only ones that need light to germinate last year I gave them all supplemental light after sowing but I learned that most of these seeds don’t need light to germinate in fact, light may hinder the germination process

Once they sprout though, they do need lots of light! let me know what your garden plans for this season are, if any… in the next balcony garden video, I will give you an update on these seedlings I will clean up my balcony and prep it for planting seeds after the last frost day

And I will also plant all of the leafy greens that do better in colder temperatures… thanks so much for watching! I will see you very soon 🙂