Easy Ways to Start and Transplant Your Seedlings - Tips and Techniques

If you're a gardener, you know how important it is to start your seeds early so that you can have healthy and robust plants in your garden. In this video, I'll show you some easy ways to start your seedlings and transplant them to your garden.

First, I want to introduce you to a really cool gadget called Sol Perfect Cedar. This product comes with a seed stick and a base tray with a dome. It's perfect for sowing seeds, and it's so easy to use. All you have to do is add seeds to the tray, move the seeds around so that they deposit in the holes of the seed stick, and then transfer the seeds onto the cells of the tray. Cover the seeds with some soil and water them. It's that easy!

Next, I'm using plastic cups that you get when you buy yogurt or sour cream and styrofoam cups when you buy coffee. I place the seeds in these cups, top the cups with soil, and then water the newly planted seeds. I place the cups in a plastic tote to create humidity and lock in moisture for the plants to grow. There's enough space in the tote for the plants to grow big and tall. This is environmentally friendly because I reuse the same cups over and over year after year. Otherwise, these cups would go to landfill.

Once the seedlings grow, you can easily transplant them from the plastic cups and styrofoam cups. It's very easy to just pull the seedlings out of the cell and then transplant them in your garden. You can also use a rain gutter to start and transplant your seedlings. First, fill the rain gutter with growing media, plant the seeds, and cover the gutter. After 10 days, the seedlings are tall enough to transplant. To transplant all of the seedlings, dig a trench in your raised bed, and then easily slide all the contents of the rain gutter, including all the seedlings, all at once in your raised bed. This is a very quick way to transplant a bunch of seedlings all at once.

You can also grow seedlings in toilet paper rolls and eggshells. Cut the toilet paper rolls in half, and paper towel rolls in quarters to make the growing pods. Fill the cut rolls with seed starting soil or growing medium of your choice. The egg carton will hold their roots very nicely, which is what it's designed to do. Seeds will grow in eggshells just fine, however, eggshells are very small for seedlings to develop any more than two inches, so plant quickly in your garden after seedlings develop.

In conclusion, starting and transplanting your seedlings is easy and can be done in a variety of ways. I hope this video has given you some ideas on how to start your seedlings and transplant them to your garden. Remember, the possibilities are endless, and you can use any container that you have on hand. Happy gardening!