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Series: Starting seeds

The tools and methods I use to start seeds indoors, to grow seedlings for transplant.

Seed starting tools

13 Nov 202318 Mar 2007 by Mike (tfb)
Seed starting tools

It doesn’t take much to get seed started indoors. Fingers, mainly. The Seedmaster is a bit of a gadget from last year, not liked much at first, but rising on the tiny tool chart. You roll the yellow wheel, which … Read the rest

Categories Tools Tags seed, transplant, Winter Leave a comment

Seed starting tools II

13 Nov 202325 Feb 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Here are ALL the indoor seed starting tools I have, most of them always-used, a couple not. Nothing special, and FINGERS I’ve found are handiest for most of the work at this scale. In any case, a few details (and … Read the rest

Categories Seed & Seedlings, Tools Tags hygrometer, thinning, seed, seedlings, thermometer, Winter 12 Comments

Return to the trays

13 Nov 20236 Dec 2007 by Mike (tfb)

These 72-cell plug sheets, filled with now bone-dry starter mix, have been sitting in the Milkhouse on one half of the double sink since early last summer. They were extras from the final round of seed starting (the last of … Read the rest

Categories Seed & Seedlings Tags clean-up, plug sheet, Autumn 1 Comment

Seed starting station

13 Nov 20239 Mar 2007 by Mike (tfb)
Seedling station

The seedling workstation… This high and narrow table is where I put seeds in cellpaks. The triple sink, a leftover from the dairy days when this was the sterile milk collection room, work out well for seed-starting, with all of … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Seed & Seedlings, Tools Tags peppers, eggplant, seedlings, seed, propagation, Winter Leave a comment

The watering tray

13 Nov 202313 Mar 2008 by Mike (tfb)

It’s funny how almost random objects can become practically indispensable tools. Like this rigid gray tray, given to me a while back, just the one, amongst a mixed bunch of plastic flower pots from bedding plants, passed along by a … Read the rest

Categories Seed & Seedlings, Tools Tags parsley, seedlings, watering, Winter 4 Comments

Bare root seed starting

13 Nov 202311 Apr 2012 by Mike (tfb)
Germination in ziploc

It doesn’t get simpler than this for seed starting in controlled conditions: the bare root approach. Spread seeds on paper towel, place another paper towel on top, mist with a spray bottle, roll up (don’t forget to mark the rolls … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Seed & Seedlings Tags tomato, germination, peppers, eggplant, bare-root, Spring 6 Comments

Bare root Brussels sprouts

13 Nov 202311 Apr 2022 by Mike (tfb)
Brussels sprout seeds germinating

Yep, a wonder of Nature, up close. Three days or so after folding up the pinhead-sized seed in a damp paper towel, we have Brussels sprouts! Of course, this is only step one of many before we get to the … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Seed & Seedlings Tags brassicas, Brussels sprouts, seedlings, roots, bare-root, transplant, Spring Leave a comment
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