Having grown Tomatoes for over 50 years. I find your video very clear informative and interesting. A must watch for new gardener's and old hands. Thanks Mick.
I always applaud your videos : so helpful and so insightful. thank you for the work it takes to produce such helpful instructions resources for us newbie gardeners !
I rarely buy seedlings. I go to the Amish market and get their seedlings for odd things I have not learned to grow yet. Mostly, I only grow my own. The racks are filling up right now in my livingroom. Jeff, I grew peanuts last year, and this year I sprouted my first seedling from one of my own cured peanuts! So exciting! I am so greedy with tomatoes I have five varieties this year. I also harvest seeds fromt them for the following year! I love how you demonstrate the soil. Great info! Happy Growing!
Yes they were great! I cured them in a hanging herb bag. It took a while. The first year the peanuts were really small. I gave them longer last year. They were nice and plump. This year I am ready to roll with my own . Going to roast them this time. Yeehaw!
Its an awesome and very informative video! I just planted 6 seeds (can't really do more because i only have a balcony to work with), and many other seeds...Im so excited to grow my own plants! Keep up the good work man! 👍❤
Another great video thank you Jeff, just had a light blanket of snow last night in Western New York, getting that itch to start them seeds maybe in a couple of weeks.
Thank you so much for this video..I always love the Spring starting and planting tips...still snowing here but my greenhouse is full of seedlings. Have a wonderful growing season!
Good point about planting excess seeds so you can pick the best transplants. It's really amazing, how 1 seed packet will give you some amazing plants, but others will just be dogs.
@@nathanfuelling2577 it depends on your microclimate! I have to restrain myself from starting too early because if they get root bound it takes them a bit longer to get adapted once they are in the soil. I've also found if I start them later they have no problem catching up because of the warmer weather, and I don't have to do the whole 'outside/inside' shuffle with the larger plants to get them hardened off. Best of luck and happy gardening! 🌱🍅😃
Jeff, we have got to stop getting so excited about starting bc beautiful warm temps. All our plants looked so beautiful so he transplanted them outside. 😮then got hit with 40 degree temp last night and tonight 😢😢😢❤
We had that same storm in seattle. I spring a fied my strawberries 3 days before. Good thing I finally found a use for this tiny plastic greenhouse someone got me. I just threw them in there (lowered the less than 5 pound structure over them)
Started my peppers a month ago, have some flowers germinating and will start my tomatoes this week. Great feeling to see those little green sprouts pop up!
I've got seeds I am just itching to start, but without proper light levels it would be a mess. So I'll just keep planning and plotting in my journal for a few more weeks yet. 🤣 This is a great video to help those who are a bit gung-ho to cool our heels so we don't make preventable mistakes.
I used simple coco coir with 10% worm castings and my seeds look much better than last year. Fertilize is worm compost extract, 1 large spoon of castings to 2 quarts of water. I use it on my seedlings and orchids, keeps them looking healthy.
I need some advice.. I have a 72 cell tray with a lot of tomato varieties. This is my second attempt at starting my tomatoes this year. The wind destroyed my first batch as well as my greenhouse. Anyways my seeds germinated fine but that’s it! It’s been 3 weeks and they are all around 1 to 11/2 inches tall and are NOT changing at all.. I have 4 LED 6500 K 2200 lumens each light on them 16 hours a day. I water as needed but they are NOT changing at all.. What am I doing wrong?? They are in a spare bedroom where the temp is 68-70 at all times. I have not thinned them out since none of them look too dang good at this point. It’s 2 plants in some cells but not all.
I've never spent a single penny on tomato seeds. The tomato scraps from our kitchen grow like weeds. And I don't even have to do that anymore. The tomatoes just keep coming up year after year and spread out. I just have to choose which ones I want to allow to grow. I think it's amazing there is even a market for seeds or starters.
I'm going to try to grow fewer tomatoes this year. We've been growing many times the amount of tomatoes we need for our own food. Our chickens get most of them.
Thank you for another informative video. QUESTION: can you do a video or give ideas how to water seedlings indoors. I am planning to be away for 10 days and I don't want to return to dead plants. Thanks
Thanks Nadd! Yes, water from below. Little extra so they are standing in a half inch or so, then decrease the heat. That usually works. Feels dicey, but as long as they aren't submerged, it works.
I always geminate tomatoes around 70 Fahrenheit. Right after they emerge I use supplemental lighting only in cloudy days, yet I never exceed the natural daylight which can be for me as low as 10h. Right around/before sunset I turn off supplemental lighting and let the light from outside to give them the call to go to sleep.
My seed starter soil this year is 80-90% coco coir plus 10% worm compost. Best year yet for good looking seedlings. Potting them on to 50% compost, 30% coir, 20% garden soil. My "fertilizer" is worm compost extract, 2 litres water poured through 1 large spoonful of compost in a metal coffee filter. As long as the worms are fed with lots of variety of things, the compost is good enough for me.
Дякую Джеф за твій досвід! Вітання з України 🇺🇦 з війною нам доводиться переїжджати в регіони подалі від російських бомб, тож багато людей селяться в приватних старих будинках в маленьких селах і там вимушені вивчати з 0 науку сільського господарства за для виживання, але це дуже цікаво і корисно працювати на природі на землі, хоча і без міського комфорту до якого вже звикли. Томати це любов, тому варто на них витрачати сили та час 💪 Як кажуть у нас в Україні- щедрих Вам врожаїв!
When you moved the seedlings to a bigger cell, did you use the same seeding mix you started with? Or did you go with a different potting mix? Thanks for this fabulous video. I learned so much.
I'm in southern Cali (East county San Diego to be exact). I am trying to grow things for the first time. I have little experience helping my mom years ago in a full outside garden. I have a very small concrete backyard. I plan to transfer to a raised garden box. I started the seedlings (tomatoes and others) a lil over a week ago. I water from beneath. They are all doing well, however it seems I'm growing mold on the soil surface some more than others. Why is that?
Wow I just finished the video and skimming through other comments like a min ago surprised at the quick response. Thank you for that. Also want to add I can't remember how I came across your channel in peticular but last Aug or Sept I really got into the idea of gardening to save money on produce my boyfriend and I use frequently. And to give me something to do since I'm on disability. It was your videos that really helped it seem possible and made not as confusing as I thought it'd be. So big props on how you present the information. I find I'm like an amazed child when I see my plants grow. 😂
I started my tomatoes waaay too early! Jan 11th. Yikes, they're so tall and have out grown the shelving & grow light setup in my basement. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I can keep this "teenage tomatoes" alive until mid-May. I will start some more tomatoes this week just to be on the safe side. Same with my cantaloupes, yeah, too too early. Lesson learned.
Thanks. I looked in your Amazon links for what type of fertilizer is in the blue bottle. You don't have a link. Can you share the brand and type, please?
Hey Jeff I seeded heavily per your other videos but I'm having a problem with my cells heating unevenly in the 72 seed cell tray I've been bottom watering but some cells are dry when some are still wet come like day 9 or so when others take the full 14 days. I don't have lights just the heat pad in a south facing Pacific Northwest window Any advice? Also I was wondering if you could do a video on domes! I've noticed you still use yours quite late for your tomatoes. do you do that for other plants as well? I've been seeing a lot of conflicting info on when to remove the covers for seedlings starters transplants etc.
I got my seeds, my pots and my lights. I just need to get off the couch. Seeding soil is expensive compared to potting soil. Is there a trick to make potting soil seeding friendly?
Question for ya.... 2 years ago I grew tomatoes from store bought campari(hybrid?)tomatoes that I pulled the seed out of. They grew like wildfire, and were pretty good. I thought hybrids weren't suppose to bear fruit? The following year I used those seeds from the new fruit. Am I getting a new wierder tomato every time I do that?
Hybrids can most certainly bear fruit. Most of the tomatoes you eat are from hybrids. The issue isn't bearing fruit...the issue is with a hybrid, the QUALITY of the fruit is random, unknown, and not guaranteed. For a crop that takes 3 months to grow and a LOT of resources, most people don't want to gamble on an unknown.
Hope you sprayed those seedlings that purple tinge on the leaves looks like early tomato blight they look seriously droopy and sad. Even the seedlings when they're kept too close together with leaves touching the soil they will develope that purpling. I had the same thing keeping them in my glasshouse you need to set up a fan to keep air moving.
Jeff i think i made a mistake buying trays with coco coir pot greenhouse kits by Plantbest. Do you have any experience with these? Separating the cells is difficult and im reading now that they don't breakdown when transplanting them into your garden I checked out your suggestion for trays here in Canada on Amazon but they don't include th bottom tray or the dome. So thats why i purchased these guys at my local Home hardware. So i think i just wasted a bunch of money. Previous years i used the red solo cups.
Yes, I have used things like that in the past. No ideal, but most certainly not going to wreck your garden. The pots are designed to break down, eliminating the possibility of transplant shock because you don't disturb the roots. They kinda do, kinda don't. Separate the cells by scissors...they cut really easily. Tomatoes, peppers, and zucchinis should have no trouble bursting through the coir. After that, the tray is re-usable and you can get regular 10x20 cell trays to make proper plugs next year, no waste!
I buy my seeds (that I don't have from my own plants) from MIGARDNER (he's here on RU-vid and ships almost anywhere in the world but recently has had trouble with the UK) and his seeds are only $2.00. He's completely organic as well. If you're looking for seeds why not help out a Gardner rather than big stores plus save money? Just saying
Hello Jeff, great video!!! My last frost date here in SWMO US is April 14th. Haven’t started my seeds yet, because I’ve been sick for a while. But I’m going to get them going hopefully this week. Happy Gardening.🪴🪴🪴👍👍👍
