Seedlings you probably planted too many seeds in this video. I'm going to show you how to thin out your plants
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We're gonna go over a very simple way on how to actually thin your plants now
This can be done for any type of plant. It could be done for say carrots can be done for lettuce
It could be done for radishes or any other kind of small seed plants that you that you may have
The problem is when you have really small seeds
you'll actually
you know as you're planting them you're gonna just get a lot of them all around so you might not be able to
You know to the kind of space omona as you want
but as they actually start growing and getting larger you're gonna want to make some room here because one of the benefits of
thinning your plants out is
That it will allow the actual plants in there to be able to grow and get all the nutrients that they need
Also for for plans such as carrots in this example, we have carrots here. They got root vegetables
So they're gonna go they're gonna obviously go down
So, you know, they're gonna basically need as much room as they can to space
So I'm also when you have like lettuce there, you know
you want to have them spaced out for some of the type of plants like an iceberg lettuce, or maybe a romaine lettuce that
You know, you do want to have it allowed to grow up
So it does have some space to kind of, you know move around and it's not competing for all the nutrients
so a very simple way to actually
You know thin your plants we're gonna go over right here. There's a there's a couple ways that you can do it
And it's very simple on how to do and and we'll get right into it
alright, I'm going to show you a very simple way on how to actually
Thin some of your plants that you have and you Gordon
this you know, like I said this this is really this really works well with
say lettuce
Carrots, maybe some radishes and things like that
some of those some of those seeds that are really small and that you don't want to have
to too close together
But they just happen to just fall in there and get you know in your garden
So yeah, you know, there's a couple ways you can do it, you know the first way
Obviously is to you basically want to get rid of the plant
so you would just take some scissors or some shears and then you want to
What you want to do is depending on what plant you have is you want to know basically how far apart that the recommended?
You know space is for it
So you might want to look at your seed packet they usually have on there how far you supposed to space things apart
but the way a very simple way to think of it is just think of you know,
How big is this carrot or lettuce gonna be?
So when you when you see it when you think of lettuce, you know, maybe I'm thinking
Say like, you know romaine lettuce. So the romaine lettuce is gonna be, you know, basically about this port
So maybe you might be able to fit five or six of them in this particular container
but for carrots, you know that maybe you know how
Basically the diameter of it so, you know
Maybe spaced them 4 or 5 inches apart somewhere in that vicinity 4 inches apart
So you really just want to look on the packet, but just think of you know
When they're fully grown like what size they'll be so that you know the kind of space them apart
so
So the one so basically the first way is to obviously cut them, you know on the actual the actual stem itself
So I what I try to do is, you know
If there's a lot of them in here, I look for the ones that are just kind of smaller anyways
So because they're not really growing and then I'll just take them by the root and I'll cut them off
Now this is a good way to do this because some plants that you have you don't want to disturb them too much
so if you kind of pull them out you yank them out that might disturb the root system of the
I'll plant
carrots and and lettuce and even radishes
They don't really seem to be affected too much when they're in the you know in the shorter
When they haven't grown as much right now, so this is only a four week three or four four or five week old
Carrot carrots that I planted here. So these guys are still fine
But just be aware of that
That you know, the reason why you want to do this is that you don't want to disturb anything
It's it's really simple to do it
You just go through and you cut a ball and you get you know
basically the amount that you want in there another very simple way to do this is
You can actually move the plants. You can basically transplant them
now you want to make sure that whether you're planting lettuce or carrots or
radishes or anything like that you want to make sure that the soil has been
watered because you want it to be
You know easy to move around you want to be able to pull the root right out and then you're gonna plant it into another
Spot. So the first thing I would do is I would read last night here, so I don't have to worry about it
But if I didn't if it was a little drier out, I would just water it up
Give it a few maybe 15 minutes to kind of soak in and then you should be ready to go
So so what I do to just kind of move things around is like kind of figure out what space needs them
And then what I'll do is I'll find the ones that are really dense. So and this one
Let's see
Kind of sort through here on these
These carrots. Okay. So this guy right here
It looks like he is just kind of hanging around too many people over here. So
what I'll do is
I'm gonna just kind of separate this guy right here
and then alls I do is I find I make sure I have the root and then I pull it straight up and
Not sure if you can see it with the camera or not, but the root just came right up for this guy right here
so then what I do is they take a little stick a
little pen or maybe a little paintbrush and then all they do is I poke a hole and
A spot that that my name is so on this side
It looks like I might have missed some of it and then I just take the root and I just push it right down all
the way in there
And then I kind of cover it up again, so
That's pretty simple and you know, this is with carrots, but you can also do this with lettuce I've done this with lettuce as well
You know, especially the romaine lettuce or the iceberg lettuce, you know
the kind of the bib bib lettuce is
The salad the salad bowl ones that are just all leaves like I don't even bother doing it that I just kind of just sprinkle
them around
And now I'm actually gonna do a video on that as well
So if you check out in the link
I'll show you a video on how to plant lettuce seeds if you want to see that as well
but for this one basically, it's just pretty simple just moving things around where you cut it up and
That's really the two simple ways that you can that you can move your plants around