Look I know you guys just want to plant some seeds.
but
There's so many options out there on how to get started with it
So in this video, I'm actually going to show you a very simple and easy seed starting soil mix that you can use
Hi, this is Jeremy stark here with green thumb gardener here to give you some tips tutorials and reviews for all your gardening needs in
Today's video. We're gonna go over just a very simple
Seed seed starting mix now
Basically, there are some out there that you can get in the store
I'll put a link down there, you know
if you don't want to if you're not really certain of the recipe or if you you know the recipe I give you it's it's
A little too complicated for you. There's no there's nothing wrong with actually using the stuff that's in the store
but if you like me you like to do everything yourself and you also like to just try new things and try things out so
So basically I'm gonna give you a very simple recipe that that I use to get my seed started
I just want to let you know that there yo
you might actually Google some of this stuff and you might go out there and
They're gonna tell you all this stuff today
You have to have the the seed mix has to be microwaved or oven, you know
All this stuff to kill off everything I'll be honest with you just a full disclosure is I don't do any of that stuff
I'm not saying that it's wrong or you know that you could potentially have problems with it
But in my gardening kind of way that I do things I try to keep things very simple
and it still works for me one of the reasons why I'm like that is because I believe in
survival of the fittest and that basically means that if the vegetables the seeds are put under
Some type of stress when they're just beginning their life and they survive and they grow
I mean, that's great for them now
I know people are gonna say
Well, you want to give them the best this and that and you know to give them a good started chance and yeah
You know, that's that's well and good too. And that's fine. And that's a great way to think of gardening
but for me
It's like I just try to think of like simple and it also happens to line up with
how nature is because nature is not always gonna have this cushy little thing with all these nothing microbes in it and
Everything else for it. This is probably one of the most simplest ways other than going to buy the the bag at the store
Let's not uh dabble in that too much
I wanted to get right into it and I'll show you the mix that I use before we get started if you could also give
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Possibly a blog post that will have the this particular recipe in there that you can refer to as well
But let's get right into the show. So so now that we want to get started
we want to - actually I wanted to go over the actual recipe that I use for my
potting kind of makes my seed starting mix
But I also want to introduce my little help over it. She's gonna help me do some mixing. So tell everybody what your name is
She's our little she's our little green thumb gardener here
So basically what you need is a very simple mix for this, you know, like I said
We don't really make things too complicated. We don't try to do anything, too fancy
but we just like to at least get started and you know to give the
Plants the best shot that they can have with it
So that being said I like to make my own mix some you can also get your own mix at the store as I said
Before just you basically want to look for a seed starting mix and if you look on the back of the package
It's gonna have pretty much the same stuff that that we're using here
So while the face of the main ingredient that we're going to be using is is peat moss
Now you can find this at all of your your gardening stores, you know, it's usually compressed
It's in this huge like bins. You can also get like smaller bags of it
basically, it's just
It's basically this
bag - peat moss that you know, it's get shredded down and it's very just good for
Starting seeds because it just absorbs the water
It's it's kind of basically doesn't have any nutrients in it. It's very it's very dead it but it's very light and it's perfect for
Starting your seeds the other option you can use is this coconut stuff? I don't really I do see it sometimes in the store
It's it is very expensive. You can order online
I'll put a link in there and the show notes if you want to see that as well
But we're going to use basically the peat moss because I actually throw this stuff in my garden, too
You started another bed
So I thought this would be good to show you guys the other guy the other ingredient that you're gonna need is it's called
vermiculite and
Basically, you can find these at your local stores as well and what this is
This is basically just a crushed. It's a kind of like a rock I believe or something like that
That basically it holds the water in the actual medium. It's
it's it's it's similar to
perlite which is another it's basically another type of
You know agent that
Basically holds water in there sand that's really important when you're doing the seed start in the seats because you want to have you don't
Want it to dry out as fast so we're gonna use this in the mix as well
The other ingredient you need is I have it here in my little tea spoon thing. It's called it's called lime
It's basically your just your run-of-the-mill garden lime that you can find it at the stores as well
Alright, so let's get started so
the recipe itself actually is
Basically, very simple to do what I do is I do
Four parts four parts of anything. So, you know if you want to do, you know four of these
Basically, that would be one, you know, one of these would be one part and this is just one of those
Yogurt containers so basically in here, it's it's four cups. Okay, so and this we're using four cups
So what I did is I just filled this this bucket up. I believe I did about two gallons worth of it
So what we're gonna need is we're gonna need four of these in here
So what we'll do is we'll so the recipe basically is four parts of peat moss
- one part of
Vermiculite and then we're also gonna add a half a teaspoon of lime in here
It's actually a quarter of a teaspoon per gallon is what you you want to have and give a take - you know
All that, but basically that's the recipe and what I'll do is I'll put it right down in the show notes as well
So you know that exactly so, alright, let's get started
so we need to fill these cups up honey - what for those so maybe if I can help or I get
I do that I'll pour it in there and you can put it inside
And try not to make a mess war or we're doing this
I'll probably be the one to make the mess though
Square do you like gardening? Yeah, what's your favorite part of gardening?
They get messy she likes to get get her hands dirty -
All right. So this is number three. Yeah, this stuff can be a little dusty so
Try not to breathe it in
All right
So then the next thing we're gonna add in here is we're gonna add we for this recipe we're putting in a half a teaspoon
of lime
All right. So another thing you want to know and you can go ahead and mix it around, honey
The other thing you want to be aware of is that the peat moss is gonna be really dry
So you can add just a little bit of water to it. Just so that it's not completely dry
It's it's not really necessary
But you know does it does help if you don't want it to dry with this and you can actually use your hands?
No, let me get the lime. Oh mixed up
I'm gonna just kind of use my hands a little bit to really get this to the bottom
Because you want to mix it up really well
Here we go
now just so you know what the lime does for this is that the peat moss is pretty
Acidic, so the lime will just kind of help
Balance it out because you don't want it. You basically want a neutral
So just that that enough
You know enough for that lime will be enough to balance it out to make it a neutral thing now
You'll see on the on you know, some people will recommend that you bake the peat moss or you microwave it
Yeah, I don't I don't look I honestly don't recommend that
Peat moss will actually burn in your oven
If it's not moist and it's just I just really don't think it's necessary
And the reason why they do that is because they want to kill off any kind of bacterial things and that's understood
you know, I can totally get that but the chances of you having a bag of
Contains a lot of bacterial is is probably not it's it's you know, the chances are not great
so I just I have been doing this and I've never really had any problem with any any kind of
Any kind of bacterial things now, you know, I'm not saying that it won't happen, but the chance has been happening
I'm not not that great. How's it looking there, honey?
Looks good
Alright and then this stuff, you know, basically, you know
This stuff will be enough to fill up a lot of trades the amount that we're doing
So what you want to do is if you could if you want you can scale this back so you don't have as much
but just basically use the same kind of part recipe, you know, that that I'll put in the show notes so that you know,
What it is, so let's just show everybody what you do to fill up a see tray over here
So we're gonna just fill up this little one right here
And this is what I'm talking about. If you get these little seed trays here that are that are basically in your garden center
No, I I don't mind these I have a ton of them
So I just used use them, but you don't even need the seed tray
You can just use these particular trays and do all your planting in there
But just to show you how much this stuff will I think we just need one cup honey. Maybe it's one or two cups
I think is gonna be enough to fill everything
Just so you get an idea of what it will fill up you know in here yeah
So, I think I think probably like four four or five of these cups is probably what would fill up an actual seed tray
You know with enough for this
was that -
Let's start back here let's do this
So probably four cups of this
So four of these actual cups is enough to fill up a see tray
So, you know, obviously if you've got a huge if you only got one see tray, then you know, you know
You might not want to need this, but I actually keep this around you can just you know
I would just put on it that use this for your seed mix and then just you know
Put a cap on or something
We use the the big gallon things that you can find at the store as well to store a lot of our stuff
So hopefully I'm this hopefully this recipe will help you out
Let us know in the comments below if you you know
What you what you're planting in your little seed thing for for this year
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