Gretchen and I have decided to try starting our vegetable garden plants from seed this year. We borrowed some grow lights from Gretchen’s Dad and bought some trays, seeds, and planting mix.
We started out by moistening the planting mix. We just used an old (cleaned out) soda bottle as a watering can.
We filled up all the little partitions in our planting tray without compressing the soil too much.
We used a pen with a little piece of masking tape on it to make holes of the desired depth for each type of seed.
These are Leek seeds. They’re pretty small, but ended up being just about the largest seeds we started.
With seeds that small you have to be careful about how many you plant in each hole. For the most part, we planted more than one seed per hole. We’ll come back and prune later, leaving just the healthiest plant.
Since they just look like dirt until the sprout — and even then aren’t too easy to distinguish — we made sure to carefully label each of the blocks of seeds.
We went ahead and put the newly planted seeds under the grow light on a timer so they’ll have good light as soon as they come up.