Growing Hundreds Of Garden Starts From Seed Indoors (Part 1 | Seed To Germination)

This has been one of those landmark videos that we've been wanting to make since we started making videos for our channel. And that is covering the process we use to grow over a thousand garden starts from seed to garden transplant, indoors, every single growing season.
Once we had written the script for this video, it became clear this topic is considerable enough that we had to break it up into two individual parts. So, this part is about the equipment that we use, our indoor growing spaces and then everything we do from sowing up until the initial transplant. The next video on the topic will complete the subject and will include everything from the initial transplant from our seeding tray to an actual garden start we can put into our garden!
We will tell you, the thing that is challenging about growing from seed isn't the process that we lay out in this video. It's getting good at growing all the different types of plants out there. It's understanding how plants grow, what they need and when and various practices that will help them grow better. There is no way we could encompass all of that in a video, but we hope to shed more light with every article, post and video we make!
We want to reiterate that there are many ways to grow from seed. We have our ways, but they aren't the only way. There's lots of possible equipment, approaches and methods that one can use. After two decades of growing our own from seed in cold climates, this is where we've settled. We really like our process and we've been evolving it for a long time now. It works exceptionally well for us and gets us fantastic garden starts that rivals commercial quality in every way. And if you're in a similar situation, we hope you can take away a lot of information and insight from it!
One of the most valuable things we've come up with is determining a single methodology that we can use to grow from seed across a vast array of plant varieties. From the tall growing tomato to the vining cucumber, the spreading mint to the slow growing celery - we wanted a process that works for everything we grow. Inevitably, we've had to create some exceptions. But we do try to leverage the same process, equipment and overarching methodology across every single plant we grow. Where we've created exceptions, we've tried to minimize the impact of those exceptions on equipment and process.
We know we aren't perfect (or even good) video editors, but we are good growers. We hope that visualizing our process as much as we can is helpful for your learning efforts and that it contributes to your own growing skills.
We also know that we missed some things, but at a certain point, it's impossible for us to cover every detail or question people may have. As always, should you have any comments or questions, we welcome you to comment and we'll try our best to get back to you on it!
Thank you for checking us out & giving us a watch. If you've got one in you, we'd love it if you gave us a like & subscribe.
We'll link part 2 from here once we've completed it!
We mentioned a few resources that we have to offer on this topic! Feel free to check out our links on growing from seed:
The World's Most Comprehensive Northern Seed Sowing Schedule (USDA Zones 1 through 8!)
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An Overview Of Starting Seeds Indoors:
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Our Indoor Seed Germination Techniques:
frostygarden.com/topics/insid...
What Should You Be Planting In Cold Climate Gardens?
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And for everything else, our website is entirely dedicated to extreme northern growing information!
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0:00 Introduction
1:14 Important Things To Note
2:01 Our Germination Kit
2:32 1020 Trays
3:12 Seeding Trays
4:57 Humidity Domes
5:34 Our Indoor Growing Spaces
6:13 Single Plane Vs. Shelves
7:01 Grow Lighting
8:07 Lighting Schedules
8:46 Temperatures
9:33 Our Germination Process
10:12 Sowing Schedules
10:36 Preparing The Soil For Sowing
11:56 Sowing Our Seeds
13:22 Seed Sowing Depth
14:25 Watering Seeds & Seedlings
15:57 Using The Humidity Dome
16:36 Germinating Under Light
17:24 Large & Fast Growing Exceptions
18:15 When To Transplant
20:00 Wrapping Up

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We hope that you find this video that details our growing from seed process a helpful one! We get a lot of questions about our seed raising process, so we figured a video would be helpful to better illustrate our thoughts and processes. Inevitably we've missed something, so if you do have questions, feel free to comment. Thanks for watching, we deeply appreciate your support!

[@kennethwilliams561]

I really enjoyed listening to you, I'm in the tropics (Guam) so I really enjoy listening to someone that knows what they are talking about

[@frostygarden907]

Wonderful, glad we could contribute to your knowledge and that our efforts are reaching far & wide. Thanks for the watch, appreciate the kind comment!

[@bella123439]

Hi new subscriber love the straight talking comonsense approach you guys have looking forward to all your new posts hope that young lady in the background is on a good wage all the best from Ireland stay safe

[@frostygarden907]

Excellent! We try to cut out the fluff and get to the point. That's my wife, she sure does a great job for us! Thanks for visiting us, appreciate the watch & comment.

[@Mbusowabalondo]

Hi sir so nice to come acroos your garden channel ,your garden looks great i also grow food from containers because of space i start my garden from recycled seeds but it looks good keep the good work❤❤

[@frostygarden907]

Excellent! Thanks for giving us a watch!

[@jeffreyhilbourn209]

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Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the watch & comment!

[@carolann4943]

New subscriber- love your video!!!!!!
Thank u!!!

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Thanks for sub, much appreciated! Appreciate the watch & comment!