everything you need to know about starting seeds

If you are starting seeds indoors this is everything you need to know to get them going.
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[@dawnteskey3259]

I'm doing all the stuff. Just got the results of my soil test back, so amending the garden soil, starting seedlings, watching tons of videos. Let the fun begin!

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Best of luck!

[@YarmouthBotanicals]

We're covered in 12" of snow. Nothing like seedling-start season to bring the hope! Thanks Ben!

[@sandybottomhomestead]

You bet!

[@tinagilmore6373]

Im itching to get my 1st seeds started. Thx for sharing this Im 3rd yr gardener but have not had good harvests ATAll yet! So. Im learning and going to keep on trying until I do! ❤

[@JohnnyMeredith-pm1fh]

I’m just learning, extremely new to this.

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

Thanks for sharing the knowledge young Ben. 😊

[@sandybottomhomestead]

😅

[@karenwoodall6132]

This is my first year growing my own seedlings. I’ve learned a lot from your videos. Just got my Osmocote yesterday. I should be feeding within the next month. Thank you!

[@sandybottomhomestead]

That is awesome!

[@QuebecUrbanhomestead]

Quebec, Canada. Under 2' of snow, started some herbs to have some fresh and just some green in all this white

[@zannaB60]

Tomorrow, I will plant my onion, leek, Egyptian Walking onions, and garlic! I have a shipment of plant starts coming; they shipped today!!! I've been ill most of last month, but I'm better now and looking forward to getting outside and getting my hands in the soil!😃

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Glad you are feeling better.

[@Gretchen5010]

Thank you for this video. I’m a chronic over waterer 🤣.

[@sandybottomhomestead]

I used to be too

[@LiaSunshine67]

Thank you for linking the stuff in your set up it really helps ❤

[@sandybottomhomestead]

You're so welcome!

[@zepheniahdraws]

In coastal NC, started peppers and onions inside this week, I still have fall cabbages and collards growing, so I probably will focus more on my cottage garden this spring. I'll soon be sowing peas, Swiss chard, carrots and radish outside, though.

[@dawnhamilton197]

I am getting ready for a plant sale in March. I’ve got herbs going. And about to start papers and some flowers.

[@kelleywashington4500]

We have the same shelf and lights! I'm also in pnw 8b got my spring seeds started.

[@charlenequinilty7252]

Have same setup as you and just started my pepper seeds

[@deborhasmith6285]

Hello, I have my tomatoes and peppers sowing now.

[@heathermatthes9097]

Watching videos like this. Getting my garden ready (currently raining). Today I plan to use the seed starting guide you put together for me 👍 Very excited for this 2024 Gardening year!

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Sounds great!

[@Soilfoodwebwarrior]

Making compost, vermicompost and putting out finished composts toping this with cover crop seeds. Then topping that with some mulch, shredded wood and leaves. Feed your soil not your plants. I started some flowers as well and will do some more lettuce soon. I planted some bare 🐻 root fruit trees got two more apples to go.

[@tammyshaw4540]

Thank you for you information . I have cabbage seeds spinach , micro greens going . Iam over watering .I will back off . I need to get my fans going as well . Iam gathering information . It's 4 today here in Central Missouri ! Frosty ! Thank you !

[@alisonebw]

Growing on the OBX, NC...Just got seeds started for Broccoli, onions, kale, spinach, cauliflower and cilantro. I am also working on building new garden beds expanding my growing area. This weekend coming up (1/27) hoping to be able to direct seed peas and carrots.

[@EverythingObsessed]

ATL, GA here. My seed starting rack got covered in houseplants I brought inside for the winter. Oops 🤦🏼‍♀️ I managed to clear space to get spinach, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and onions started.

[@jeffengland1862]

Jeff from East Tennessee!! I got 5 kind of cabbage and 4 different kind of mid day onions growing. They are smaller than your plants but look great! I buy high quality seed and have grown tons of plants from seed. Now cabbage and onions are new to me because getting into more of the cool season gardening. The problem so far is it’s been very very cold here! We had 8 inches of snow and -1 degree temps! If this continues then I will have problems spreading them out! Going outside! I am going to push them along and hope for better weather!

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Hopefully it will get better

[@rosedavis5011]

I'm in coastal North Carolina. I started onion and broccoli seeds on 12/31. Watching this video makes me wish I had also started cabbages. I am also in the process of building a few self wicking beds as kind of an experiment for this summer. I have found this channel so helpful since I am super new to gardening.

[@delphine88313]

The area that i will use to grow some things with my flowers. Is put to bed covered in cardboard. I amended the soil and treated with nemotodes before all this cold weather . Im growing in grow bags and buckets right now. I have collards, cabbage, lettuce. My radishes didnt do well so far( not that crazy about them anyway 😅).Majority of my growing will be in grow bags because of grubs and slugs. I have used what most recommended but it will take time.I never planted in my soil until i retired a few years ago.So its expected pests have had a feast time.😅

[@CherrieMcKenzie]

I'm in Florida so I have been able to start my seeds already and things look promising with me just using natural light. However, this was great info and gave me the idea of using my woodworking shop light as a light source. I got my shop light at Harbor Freight for under $20. THANKS!!

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Sounds great!

[@robertbridge7678]

Watching the onion bed during this cold snap!! Most of my beds are at rest with Compost and a chopped Leaves covering. I do have a row of Melting peas, and Spinach popping up ( covered for the freeze). Have some carrots growing in Grow Bags. Have 2 New raised beds that I'm filling for spring.

[@sandybottomhomestead]

I decided to cover mine. I don't trust the weather people

[@EarthLady8B]

I have a similar set up. I opted for the 3 foot lights and the shorter shelves lengthwise. However, it’s the same. I’m doing seed inventory and I am starting seeds. I have a few collards and one cabbage out in the garden. I’m in South Georgia.

[@carmajo2500]

Thank you for the seedlings fertilizer recommendation. Looks like it's pretty economical too😊❤

[@sandybottomhomestead]

I try. It doesn't need to be expensive

[@susanchamblee1190]

I'm waiting for my seeds to arrive and working the soil .

[@GrowWhereYouArePlanted]

I have started my onion seeds.

[@gjsmimi4474]

Loving your videos! Really appreciate your comprehensiveness and detail. I have kale, garlic, and Brussels sprouts in my Winter garden (kale and Brussels sprouts have been very slow to grow, will use a different location next Winter). Right now, I'm deciding what I'm going to plant for the Spring and Summer and getting my seed start area set up. My last frost is usually the last week of April.

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Sounds great!

[@cathybrown6221]

Again, great video. Lots of helpful information! Thank you for encouraging all of us. I appreciate the time & effort you are putting in these videos.

[@emeraldwaterlifehomestead2180]

Really enjoy your instructions, keeping it simple. I share with my new garden friends. Look forward to see your seed starting soil video. Thank you. 🌱

[@undertheumbels]

We've just had a week of in/off hard freezes, so my garden is covered in plankets (they work!) and cloches (they really work!). Inside, under the grow lights, I have spindly tomatoes that I need to sort out , emerging peppers and tons of cabbages/lettuces that I'm going to plant out on Sunday.

[@Rcart024]

Currently have clover cove crop on my inground 10x12 plot, Have garlic in planted in two 2x4 raised beds which is already growing. Had a bunch of radishes in several 4x8 raised beds that died in the frost, just going to dig them into the raised bed still beneficial as a cover crop this winter. Seed starting onions , and have everything planned out for the rest of the year

[@sandrachristiansen1404]

I'm starting my onions , peppers and tomatoes indoors. They've all germinated now so they are under lights. I started pumpkins, melons and cucumbers too but realized it was way to early so I composted them. Thanks for the seed starting chart.

[@sandybottomhomestead]

You're welcome

[@freesianlover]

I’m in Iowa and I’m going to start seeds but looking for better ways and educating myself

[@FreelanceShepherdess]

NH , tough to extend my season, first thing i grow are 50 each a long season meaty tomato & adjvarski peppers (start them early grow lights, then tiny inground greenhouse). The land is sort of high, the weather extremely variable, 3 garden plots with different characteristics, ive gotten to know my micro-climates😂

[@sandybottomhomestead]

That's the most important thing to know

[@FreelanceShepherdess]

@@sandybottomhomestead yes, one garden is sloped, one has almost too much sun when we get a heat wave but I mulch and stick plastic bottles necks in near each plant ,with the bottoms cut off the bottles, to get the water to them without wasting it. We have a pond but I'm lazy don't always set up the pump. I use catch barrels along all the she'd roofs that are near each garden, third garden is cooler, nearer the woodline, and the critters bother it but it's a good spot, less wind.

[@loracarmichaelwhite]

Love your set up. I am working on mine. Didn’t see the fans in your Amazon store.

[@sandybottomhomestead]

they are there i moved them to the top

[@sandrabradbury4962]

I'm in the Pacific Northwest, and I'm going to try winter sowing. Never have done this before. I'm looking into the kind of flowers I can winter sow here.

[@peggyrhoads-ro8us]

I'm in zone 6b. I'm growing lettuce indoors and planning on starting winter sowing in February. I've been buying lots of flower seeds and also some vegetable seeds which I've never done before. I get very excited planning for the spring time and have to stop myself from starting seeds too early. 😄

[@vinnyrodriguez3882]

Thanks, great video. Looking into osmocote

[@Stacey-tb6vq]

I'm growing strawberries plants outside I also growing tomato seedlings inside also pepper seedlings and is going to add peas and bean plants inside. Under grow lights.

[@Stacey-tb6vq]

I live in zone 6

[@laurannbrook9964]

Just learning getting ready to start my seeds for my medical herb gardening and nursery

[@bonsaigroves4475]

new listener and subscriber! transplant from Nor Cal to NW Florida. im a week out from attempting my second ty of growing my own starts. i hand a super fail last year. I'm taking in as much info as i can. the garden is a bit baron at the moment , the recent cold snap hit hard.

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Hey you might be my first fellow bonsai grower! Hopefully the weather turns around now

[@bonsaigroves4475]

@@sandybottomhomestead thats crazy cool. It is much different than i am used to out here. Especially because i made my on substrates.

[@bonsaigroves4475]

@@sandybottomhomestead thats crazy cool. It is much different than i am used to out here. Especially because i made my on substrates.

[@bonsaigroves4475]

Here is my seed starting setup… i have had so seeds com up and fail already. Some brassicas. That was before the lights were added

[@angelaobrien7698]

Great video and so much information. Do you ever use bottom heat.

[@sandybottomhomestead]

For summer plants just to germinate

[@rawhoney2199]

What im doing right now...if yall could see my plant shelf i put together. But its working for the most part. Im on 3rd and 4th tries. My mustard and turnips are STILL leggy. Using light fish emulsion.

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Move the light clower or leave it on longer

[@ashleehouse5204]

Feel like I'm running behind. I'm still debating if/where I want to move my fence (i fence off garden to keep dogs and chickens out). Do I want to put pigs back in that one side to finish killing the grass? Do I want to cover it with dirt or mulch and plant in the top layer?? I do have some peppers and sweet potatoes in the house until it warms up enough for them to go back out.

[@hoppingfroghobbies]

i am doing all the things, i have permission from land lady to kill a giant queens rose bush to give me more grow room, im all containers. i do have a 78 cell in my grow tent with herbs, i also have 5 aero gardens growing seeds. Nrtn calif so i have months to go but these are going to be inside use.

[@pmctee]

Why aren't you adding your water and fertilizer to your holding tray, under the plants? Al's I would love to see a video of setting up your seed starting shelves. 😁

[@sandybottomhomestead]

I don't bottom water much because of over water chances. Sorry I'm not breaking the shelf down and rebuilding it

[@DavidBrown-vx6fb]

What hardiness zone? Location? Really enjoy you channel!

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Coastal nc

[@KHMarple]

Knowing what zone you are in would be helpful.

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Zone doesn't matter I am in coastal nc. No matter what zone you're in even if it's the same as me your timing will be different

[@kellyevans2173]

Consuming videos and making sure I have supplies. How often do you water seedlings? Seems like from video you are saying to let the cells get close to dried out to prevent over watering , is that correct?

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Yes. I water when they need it

[@frankwetzel811]

Git cabbage and broccoli going under lights About 3 to 4 weeks out of getting outside. How to start hardening off? Thanks

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Tuesday video

[@shelley2553]

Started 4 types lettuce seeds, mustard, onions, garlic, chives, beets, broccoli, bunch more stuff..2nd yr gardener..have tons to learn..yesterday used pond water for garden prep..also with use chicken droppings..any information that would be helpful with this?

[@sandybottomhomestead]

You already did it what do you want to know about it?

[@shelley2553]

@sandybottomhomestead I meant to say Will use chicken droppings. I guess question should have been do you recommend using chicken poop? Is there anything that I should add with these 2?

[@daveb1870]

How big are the biggest trays that you have the other trays in?

[@sandybottomhomestead]

10x20

[@terrapros]

The light setup offers yellow or white, what's the difference other then light color? Which is preferred by you?

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Mine are yellow. Doesn't matter what ever you want to look at

[@dinobernardi170]

So with the fertilizer pellets on top, you water from top?

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Yes

[@tinaschantz5000]

I’ve got onions seeds planted and I think I have to do leeks the same way, right?

[@sandybottomhomestead]

never grown leeks I dont eat them. Google it

[@russellayers4346]

I bottom water my plants, will osmocote still feed my plants?

[@sandybottomhomestead]

If it gets wet it will feed

[@ashleehouse5204]

Question... those are regular lights and not uv or grow lights?

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Grow lights link for them is below

[@ashleehouse5204]

@@sandybottomhomestead I saw it, after I asked. Thank you.

[@tonyb1803]

Starting seeds indoors and chickens are working soil outside.

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Perfect

[@Miss1776-ic5ic]

What state is Ben in?

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Ben is in coastal nc

[@paulmccrary393]

What zone are you in?

[@sandybottomhomestead]

Coastal nc

[@paulmccrary393]

Is that 8a