Seed starting 101 | Basics to get growing | The Impatient Gardener

Important addition! Here's the full URL for the NOAA frost date website: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/climatenormals/climatenormals.pl?directive=prod_select2&prodtype=CLIM2001&subrnum%2520to%2520Freeze/Frost%2520Data%2520from%2520the%2520U.S.%2520Climate%2520Normals
Seed-starting basics! See time stamps to skip to specific information:

3:01 Figuring out your last frost date
6:36 Make a seed starting chart
7:02 How to read a seed packet
9:29 Direct sow or start inside
10:45 Supplies
15:05 Planting seeds in cells
17:24 How to make soil blocks
24:27 Bottom heat
26:17 Germination! Now what?
26:45 Grow lights
29:22 Fertilizing
29:54 Hardening off
31:00 How to find more information

Thanks to Jung Seed Co. for partnering with me on this video. https://www.jungseed.com

SEED-STARTING SUPPLIES
Organic seed-starting mix: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J51009/1048
Coco coir: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J52862/1020
Seed tray without holes: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J53208/1060
Web flat: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J59429/1060
Cell insert: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J83656/1060
Humidity dome: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J53203/1060
Germination heat mats: https://www.jungseed.com/category/1047
Easy grow lights: https://www.jungseed.com/category/1032
Soil blocker: https://amzn.to/2vGhw5T

SEEDS IN THIS VIDEO
Everleaf Emerald Towers Basil: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J02367/877
Organic Sunshine Squash: https://www.jungseed.com/product/J04975/1115

SOIL BLOCK RECIPES
My recipe:
2 parts reconstituted coir fiber
2 parts sifted organic seed starting mix
1.5 parts vermiculite
.25 part (or less) bone meal
.25 part green sand

Eliot Coleman recipe (makes 1/2 bushel)
7.5 qt. peat moss
1/8 c. Lime
5 qt. perlite
1/4 c. blood meal
1/4 c. colloidal phosphate
1/4 c. green sand
2.5 qt. compost
5 qt. garden soil

READ MORE ARTICLES ON THE IMPATIENT GARDENER
How to grow in soil blocks: https://www.theimpatientgardener.com/how-to-start-seeds-in-soil-blocks/
Seed basics: https://www.theimpatientgardener.com/seed-basics/

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