Buying the already-started plant from a nursery is good too. :)
Required: Warmth, light, water, soil, container.
- 64º-78ºF (18º-25ºC)
- Florescent Bulbs
- Keep Moist | Misting Spray Bottle, Water Bottle w/ Small Holes in Cap, Bottom Watering
- Tray, Egg Carton,
Test 1: Spinach (Failure)
- 1 seed planted in a halved water bottle and watered every other day.
- Used soil from my garden mixed with sand.
- Got excited when a sprout popped up, but it was a weed carried over with the garden soil. Its corpse is still in my shed.
Test 2: Spinach (Failure)
- 4 seeds planted in a small 4-part flat using garden soil mixed with sand.
- Set in an area that gets indirect sunlight and watered thoroughly every morning.
- They drowned.
Test 3: Nasturtium & Marigold (Success)
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| Marigold Sprout |
- 4 seeds planted in a small 4-part flat using moistened Schultz Potting Soil Plus mixed with perlite.
- Set in a window in a warm room (computer room) that gets 5 hours of sun a day.
- Covered with the top part of a gallon milk jug (makeshift greenhouse) and spritzed with a spray bottle to moisten the top of the soil every morning.
- 3 of 4 sprouted: both marigolds and one nasturtium. Nasturtium came up leggy.
Test 4: Tomatoes, Green Beans, Cucumber, Squash (In Progress)
- 6 seeds. 4 planted in egg shells, 2 planted in halved toilet paper tubes. Wrote name of seed on shell/tube. Watered soil thoroughly to moisten before planting seeds.
- Set a grow light close to the containers.
- Soil seems to dry out quickly thanks to light. Spritzing 2 times a day to try and keep moist. Put bottom part of cut gallon milk jug over egg shells, hoping for a greenhouse effect.
Test 5: Tomatoes & Green Beans (In Progress)
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| Prepping the Soil |
- 10 seeds planted in a halved cardboard egg carton (6 pods).
- Mixed Schultz Potting Soil Plus with a handful of perlite and filled the carton pods.
- Watered thoroughly to moisten and let sit for an hour as excess water drained off (soaks through the carton, put something under it).
- Set in a window in a warm room (computer room) that gets 5 hours of sun a day.
- Covered with the top part of a gallon milk jug (makeshift greenhouse) and spritzed with a spray bottle to moisten the top of the soil every morning.
