10 Seed Starting Tips for Beginners
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Seed starting is an exciting time, and my first 2024 seed starting video is packed with easy-to-implement tips and hacks for beginners and seasoned gardeners alike.
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In this video, I explain 10 easy-to-follow ways to start your seeds, whether you're planning to nurture them indoors, in a greenhouse or polytunnel, or directly outdoors in the UK's varied climate.
We'll cover essential tips and tricks, like how to sow your seeds so they get the best start in life, from rejuvenating old compost mix to understanding the unique growing conditions for plants like broad beans and onions.
We'll also explore innovative tools and techniques that make seed starting more efficient and reliable. Pre-soaking seeds, using sandpaper to help with hard-coated varieties, creating homemade seed tapes, and employing old water gutters for an ingenious sowing method are just a few of the tricks I'll share. Additionally, I'll discuss the benefits of indoor multi-sowing and deep cells, why you should use water trays, and the advantages of bulk sowing to save time.
By the end of this guide, you'll be equipped with my top 10 list of gardening tips and tricks, ready to start your seeds with confidence. Whether you're creating a lush outdoor garden or organic UK allotment, this 2024 seed-starting video is here to ensure your gardening adventure is a success from the very beginning.
0:00 Introduction
00:28 Pre-Soaking
01:19 Sandpaper
2:33 Toilet Paper
04:45 Seed Tapes
08:22 Gutter Peas
11:46 Old Compost
16:15 Multi-Sowing
18:23 Water Trays
20:04 Bulk Sowing
21:21 Deep Cells
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I make seed tapes with my school gardening club.The kids love it!
Oh, that's such a cool idea, I bet they do. What seeds do they like growing the most?
Excellent! Nice and concise, perfect for new growers. Not seen the toilet paper in a seed drill before, smart!!
Let me know if you do and how you get on. It definitely makes seeing tiny seeds easy.
Some great Hacks there Chris. 😊
Thanks Emma, I hope you've got those pesky snails under control.
I love the toilet paper idea and might give it go.
I think you should, let me know how you get on and what seeds you use it for. Some of them are so tiny 👍
@@veggieplot I used the toilet paper for carrots and they probably came up quicker than ever as I grow my early carrots in tubs
In my house so they can dry out quickly
But the loo paper worked rather well.
I have parsnips with loo paper outside and planted them 15 days ago so not seen any so farl
Hi Chris, Some great tips there the Tissue one is a good one and the Seed Tape i have heard before. You mentioned that you thought of the Seed Tape and you asked who the person was that started the Seed Tape, well after doing some research i found out the stuff below for you to read.
I bet after reading this below you should have patented your idea, as a 16 year old girl 'thought? of the idea?' and so it was launched in 2010. (Sorry)
In 1790, a Shaker religious community started to sell packets filled with seeds saved from the previous year. It was a new idea. Seeds for farmers had only sold in bulk quantities. At first the packets held only vegetable seeds, but by the mid-1800s, flower seeds were also sold. Sometime before 1918, Shaker seed tape was invented and sold.
Claire Reid is the creator of Gardening Reel, a gardening solution she's invented to simplify food growing. Reel Gardening an award-winning patented invention, Reid says her biodegradable strips use 80% less water than traditional gardening methods, because they require water only at the exact location of each seed.
Launched in 2010, Reid’s Johannesburg based startup produces a paper strip that that comes pre-packaged with seeds and organic fertilizers. These are spaced at the right depth and distance apart so they can be easily planted and maintained.
Take Care,
Barry (the Wirral)
Hi Barry, that was really interesting and I raise my glass to her for following through. I particularly like the idea of added nutrients in the paper, a great solution. I'll have to see if I have my degree stuff in the attic and dig it out, who knows, I might still have the originals squirrelled away somewhere.
Very useful hacks. I particularly like the 2 toilet tissue ones. I already do most of the hacks you mention but the toilet tissue hacks are new to me. Thank you. Happy gardening 😃
The seed tape is so easy to do. I'd love to know if you do and how you get on?
I've never had any success with seed tapes 😕. I like the toilet paper trench idea ❤. Jo Devon 🙂
Hey Jo, the parsley was the first major success I've had too, although I have tried carrots and parsnip before. There's something about handling seeds that I can't quite explain, and the tape seems to remove you from the growing process, adding something man made and not as authentic. I'm going to try my parsnip tapes but wouldn't buy factory seed tape again. The parsley tape was from a neighbour.
Thanks for these tips, I am going to try some of them
Thank you Wendy, let me know how you get on.
Excellent tips Chris I soaked my sweet peas and lupins. I love beans and I have several varieties 😅😅 go figure. I totally have to pot on tomatoes 🍅 this week, already. Have a most fab week ahead, Ali 🌞🌞🇨🇦
Thanks Ali. I miss growing Lupins, I might have to check out the local store to see if the have any. Tomato potting on for me too this week, I wish I hadn't double sown as I now have to pot them all on or throw away all that potential. Who said gardening was easy? Have a lovely week too ☀️☀️
Thanks Chris, some great hacks there. Always water from below once seedlings appear. New to the deeper cells this year. looking forward to stronger healthier plants. After watching one of your videos I picked up a blackcurrant bush yesterday, £1.49 in Home Bargains! Will see how it does. Variety is Ojebyn. 🙂
Hey Sue, thank you and I think you'll find the deeper cells very useful. I haven't heard of Ojebyn before but will check it out. Fruit bushes are amazing as they just keep going year after year so once you have them, they hardly ever need changing, unless of-course we start a fruit farm... now there's an idea 😂
@@veggieplot 😁
Chitting seeds between layers of damp tissue in a lidded box in a warm place can help with stubborn germination. Just does this with some chard that wouldn't germinate. Thanks for all your videos. Trying some of your tomato recommendations this year.
Hi Alison, a great idea and one for another video perhaps. What tomatoes are you growing this year?
@@veggieplot Hi I'm giving Alice's Dream a go, ozark sunrise, starfighter prime, garnet. Also orange zlata which did great last year, and thr usual crimson crush, roma, tigerelka
The only hack I have never done is the toilet paper hack. It's so easy now I have seen it, although I would have never thought of it. 😀
I'm always on the look out for new and better ways to do things in the garden, and very impressed you've done all these. Did you have any success with the seed tape?
@@veggieplot this will be my first year doing tapes. 🙂
No hacks of toilet paper for me , don’t have time 😂 multi sowing is a must , the way you sow leeks I sow my onions … great results. Have you tried sowing tomatoes direct? Wouldn’t that save a lot of faf?
😂 Multi sowing is such a great idea but I haven't sown my onions like that before. Do you plant them out as you would leeks?
@@veggieplot yes , when they reach small pencil size . I also do my Zebrune shallots like that. .
Great video. Where did you get calypso beans from?
I always try to water from the bottom once seeds have germinated. Love the homenade tapes, im going to try that one .
They were from Honeyvale Farm on Etsy. Let me know how you get on with the tapes and what seeds you try 👍
Hi can you explain how you use top soil and compost for veg growing ? Thanks
For my tubs I use a 3 thirds mix to rejuvenate the old spent soil, so a third garden compost from my veg scrap compost bin, a third soil from an old tub and a third fresh compost from a store bought, peat free bag. It's not a science as far as I do it and I'm sure a trained horticulturalist might have other ideas. Trial and error really, and do what works best for you, as long as there is plenty of fresh organic matter in the new mix and a healthy dose of organic soil life, I don't think you can go far wrong.
I should add that it also depends on what you intend to grow in the mix, as it might be too rich in the first year for crops like carrots. The best thing though is that there's always next year and a chance to give it another go.