Start A Garden
How to get good plant seeds for next year Garden
Always choose the best quality plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables from which to save seeds. Look for disease resistance, healthy, great flavor and high productivity. Next year’s plants will only be as good as this year’s seed. When the seed pods have dried on the plant (flowers, beans, broccoli, lettuce…) or the plant like Tomato, cucumber, watermelons …) is fully grown and well past their edible stage when the seeds are ready to be harvested. break open the plant, pull out the seeds and put them in a clean dry container (if it has a lot of chaff, you can wash it with cold water) and put it in a warm place indoors like the kitchen or sun room or sun dry it outside. Once the seeds are thoroughly dry, it will not rot or mold in storage.
Storing Saved Seeds
Make sure the seed is thoroughly dry, Remove as much of the chaff as possible, Store in a paper envelope, labeled with the variety and year Place the envelopes into an air tight container, such as a canning jar or storage cans Store in a cool, dark, dry place. Stored seed is best used the following year. If well stored you can still use some seeds a few years later. Seeds
How To Get Seeds
You can easily buy plants seeds and live plants
How To Save Pepper Seeds
Towards the end of the growing season, I try to prepare for the next growing season by savings seeds. In this video I will show you how to save Pepper seeds for next year. doing this save me money since I don’t have to buy the pepper seeds or nursery.
How to Make the Best Seed Starting Mix
How to Make the Best Seed Starting Mix – Seed starting mix will cost you about $5 per 8 dry quarts if you buy it (Jiffy Natural & Organic Starter )from store or garden center but would cost you less than a $1.50 if you do it yourself. All seed Starting mix and potting mix are often made from perlite and Peat Moss and some organic fertilizer.
Mix the following in a container
4 part (cup) Peat Moss
4 part (cup) worm compost (or other great quality compost)
1 Part(cup) perlite
Seed Starter Mix Without Compost
Mix the following in a container
5 part (cup) Peat Moss
1 Part(cup) perlite
1 table spoon organic fertilizer like Garden tone
Growing Vegetables in Containers
You can also grow vegetables in containers if you don’t have a yard to start a garden, you can use buckets and other recyclable containers to grow plants, You can use these containers in your Balcony, deck, roof top on apartment buildings and windows in your home.
How to plant and Grow Pepper in Containers – A Step by step Guide
Extremely Easy ways to prevent weeds in your Garden
Make Your own Inexpensive Potting Mix
Making your own potting mix will save you a lot of money because it is far cheaper than buy it at the store and you can make it as rich as you want base on what you are planting and you resource like Worm compost or organic rich compost, perlite or sand and many more.