Seed Starting & Transplants
Every successful harvest begins with a healthy plant…they start with quality seeds.
The journey from seed to harvest begins long before plants reach the garden. Seed selection, germination, seed starting, up-potting, transplanting, timing, and early plant care all influence the success of the growing season. These articles explore practical techniques, lessons learned, and real-world experiences related to starting plants from seed, raising healthy transplants, and giving young plants the best possible start.
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GARDEN : What Actually Creates a Productive Garden? (video)
I am going to try something really different…a standard article of mine and also a video from the same article. Why? I really don’t know. I just wanted to try something different. I will post…
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GARDEN: Fertilizer N-P-K Numbers and What It Means…
Walk into any garden center and you’ll see fertilizer bags with numbers such as 10-10-10, 20-5-10, 5-10-10, etc. To many gardeners, those numbers look like some kind of secret code…they’re not. Those three numbers represent…
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GARDEN : Update! (05/20/2026)
An absolutely gorgeous morning!!! It is crisp and cool this morning, a bit more humidity freshening the air, and just enough cloud cover to make it a little different than most mornings. And best of…
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GARDEN : Seedling & Potting Soil
I posted an article on soil amendments and what each is and does. < click here > What I will do today is tell you a bit about how I actually use those products with…
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GARDEN : Soil Amendments…Better & Healthier Soil & Plants!
It’s vitally important to have healthy soil to grow healthy produce…and a lot of it. To that end I will cover; Biochar, Blood Meal, Bone Meal, Coco Coir, Compost, Gypsum, Leaf Mold, Mulch, Peat Moss,…
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GARDEN : Replenishing Raised Beds
It’s getting close to panting time so that means getting my raised beds ready for all those new plants coming from my greenhouse. I built the beds a couple of years ago and here’s how…
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GARDEN: Mellon Patch Disaster !
Follow-up article from < GARDEN : Planting butternut squash, cantaloupe, & watermelon… > Note: Originally written on April 28th, updated on May2nd. I’ve been working on a melon patch for a couple months. Why? Last…
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GARDEN : Planting butternut squash, cantaloupe, & watermelon…
Time to get them in the ground and growing ! ! Note: Originally written in mid-April…the actual planting took place at the end of March. It’s early but it looks like no more freezes at…
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GARDEN : Let’s talk mulch…ah, compost…
Funny thing…mulch and compost are often confused and used interchangeably. Well, depending on the “mulch” you can use it as compost. But, a lot of mulch isn’t compost. For this article I will be…
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GARDEN : Disaster Strikes !
Some days you just wanna…well, wonder what the heck is going on. Last Saturday morning was one of those days…disaster had struck in the garden the night before. Well, technically in the greenhouse…but it is…
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Sometimes I just get excited…
So there I was Friday night…out to dinner with my wife celebrating 21 years together, wedded bliss. Yeah, hard to believe that someone would put up with me for 21 whole years. I guess she…
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GARDEN : Perlite vs Vermiculite
I am no master gardener…not by a long shot. But, my thumb is fairly green. In years past, pretty much all my life, I’ve done pretty well with vegetable and flower gardens. I did have…
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Q & A : Growing Onions
How do you start and grow onions? I found that onion variety is really sensitive based on the area of the country you are in. For us I found Wala Wala does really well. That…
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Q & A : Seedlings
I got a couple of questions from my latest “glamstead” article… < click here to read that article > What do you use for potting soil? I’ve used different versions. I’ve also…
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How to make dirt…Part #4
This is the fourth in the making dirt series. If you haven’t already read Parts #1, #2 & #3 you might want to: <click here to read Part #1> <click here to read Part #2>…
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How to make dirt…Part #3
This is the third in the making dirt series. If you haven’t already read Parts #1 & #2 you might want to: <click here to read Part #1> <click here to read Part #2> We…
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How to make dirt…Part #1
Administrative note: I broke this super, super long article into 5 shorter ones. I didn’t want to bore folks to death or overload Internet servers from folks reading it. The “parts” will be: Introduction &…