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When you want to save money, gain great satisfaction of knowing you brought your final harvest to fruition from seeds you planted yourself and want to produce robust, healthy plants then sowing the seeds yourself is the way to go.
You will need some space such a good window ledge that gets sunlight and no drafts, seed trays, individual plugs in seed trays, a small greenhouse or even a large one if you are heading in that direction. Just remember the more you do the more you have to take care of.
You can do the smaller plantings on a sunny sheltered corner of your terrace or patio where you can water them every morning and in really hot weather you may have to water in the evening also. Plants like tomatoes need to be watered often but a little at a time as opposed to Courgettes or any other type of zucchini which requires a lot of watering.
Use a good watering can with a sprinkler head attachment so your plant leaves get a good drink and a washing at least twice a week and rest of the time water at the base of the plant. Check for red spider mites on your tomatoes. Once your plants start to flower give them a good diluted feeding of some kind of organic fertilizer.
You will need to fill your trays or containers with an organic compost planting mix, some perlite, inserting your seed or seedling. One seedling per container or if you are just starting seeds then put in 3 or 4 and then thin out the weakest looking ones leaving one strong looking one.
If you are transplanting seedlings and the roots are tangled then pull apart and put one seedling each in one 3.5” pot.
As your seedling grow taller and stronger then repot them into larger pots, hardening them off until they are ready to be put into your garden soil or container soil.
Do not put into the ground until all danger of frost has passed or all your hard work will be for nothing.
Once they are in your garden or in your containers, continue with the same advice as above and remember to weed around your plants even in containers.
“Tread the Earth Lightly” and in the meantime… May your day be filled with…
Peace, Light and Love,
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