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: Q & A – Why in the he$$ are you preparing a 6k square foot garden?
Why in the he$$ are you preparing a 6k square foot garden? First off…the total area I worked on was 10,000sq’, only about 6,000sq’ is going to be usable for a potential garden area. I…
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Garden: Big Mistake!
I’ve been really working hard at expanding our garden this year. Our goal is to try and eat out of the garden as much as possible. A secondary goal was to become independent of buying…
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Garden: Q & A – Tomato Soil
From: floidb RE: Garden Tip: Potting Soil Greetings and thanks for the helpful article. Do you think this mixture would work well for planting the tomatoes in a raised container, once they are large enough to…
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Garden: Starting Tomatoes Indoors
Let’s talk why to start seedlings indoors. In my area you have a 50% chance of frost (36oF) by June 3rd. Two weeks later there is only a 10% chance of frost. Sure you can…
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Garden Tip: Potting Soil
Let’s talk the potting soil racket. This year I have already planted 113 seedlings, maybe 40 – 50 yet to go. Does it get expensive to buy potting soil. Answer: Maybe. So let’s set a…
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Time to work on my strawberry patch! (ooooppppssss)
(no, that’s not my strawberry patch) Early last week I inspected my strawberry beds to see how close I was to un-mulching them for the spring. You can tell they are ready when you see…
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Plan B, Plan C, and Strawberries…
So let’s do this in reverse order…strawberries first. But stick around for the Plan B & Plan C part…or jump directly to it. You know there is always method to my madness 🙂 Strawberries –…
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Time to be thinking spring…garden, orchard, & berry patch!
Yup, yesterday morning got me thinking about spring…garden, orchard, berry patch…YEA! I’ve been putting it off because of weather, mud mostly, but yesterday was one of my most favorite times of spring (ok, late winter)…pruning…
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Garden: Orchard Fall Maintenance
January 2021 I started our fruit orchard…with 3 trees. So no, the picture to the left is not our orchard, just a nice picture to make you feel good and impress you. We started our…
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GARDEN: Strawberry Patch 2022 Fall Update
OK, this is a new kind of post for me. Yes, it is about our strawberry patch, that stays the same. What is different is how I produce it. Recently, about 2 weeks ago, I…
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GARDEN: Our Strawberry Patch – Fall
In addition to Pepsi I am a addicted to strawberries…yup, I love em! You will always find an open can of freeze dried strawberries in the cabinet for use on my Special K. This past…
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Garden: Hail and Starvation
About two weeks ago we had a really bad hail storm hit us. Two miles away…nothing. Here…really bad. So to make it simple to understand…we lost our entire garden…everything! The hail was the size of…
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Top 3 Apocalypse Vegetables
This article came from a question asked of me: What would the top 3 vegetables be in your garden during the apocalypse? Valid question…although the first time I have been asked that. And it is…
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Garden: Let’s Talk a Minute…
Since we started our “glamstead” I’ve been talking about gardens. Oh, what’s a glamstead? It’s kinda like a farmstead thing, kinda like a homestead thing…but with lots of modern conveniences such as relatively close to…
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Garden – 2021: 3/8/2021
On February 11th my wife and I started our seedlings. Now, just so you are aware…I’ve never, ever tried to grow my own plants from seeds indoors. Yeah, never. But, last year’s experience taught me…
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It’s time for garden prepping !
Yup, it’s that time of year to start preparing for your garden. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to actually start planting! Unfortunately it is not yet time for 99% of us to be…