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How To Propagate Vegetables From Seeds In Pots

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How To Propagate Vegetables From Seeds In Pots

Make an early start on your garden by learning to propagate vegetables in containers. This short, expert led guide tells you all you need to know about this subject. Make an early start on your garden by learning to propagate vegetables in containers. This short, expert led guide tells you all you need to know about this subject.

Step 1: You will need

Step 2: Fill the pot

Sieve the soil over the pot. Use your hand to break up any lumps. When the pot is full, scrape off any excess with a striking board or your hand and use a firming board or your hand to press down the soil to about a centimetre below the lip of the pot.

Step 3: Sow

Tear open the seeds and drop them one at a time about a centimetre apart. You could use a dibber to help even them out.

Step 4: Cover

Sprinkle a little regular soil or vermiculite soil over the seeds. Whichever you choose, the soil cover should only be twice the height of the seeds.

Step 5: Water

Turn the rose so that it is facing upwards. Start running the water at the side of the pot, this will prevent disruption to the soil surface as you water the soil. Pass it over the seeds about 4 times.

Step 6: Label

Lastly, you should label your seeds. Use an indelible pen to put the date on one side of the label, and the seed type on the other.

Step 7: Leave to grow

Different seeds require different growing conditions. Check the packet. It's usually somewhere warm and sunny like a greenhouse or a window sill. Water regularly.

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  1. Anonymous

    ot or container should be watered so as to wet all of compost before sowing seed. Watering after sowing seed may wash seed into clumps. B.Fordham

  2. joanrogers

    very good video very clear in each step.

  4. howgozit

    Show a video snippet of the growing seedlings at the end. Tell me the next videojug in this particular sequence, which might be "Handling seedlings" (how, when, etc.) or "Solving seedling problems" such as wilt. A prior videojug could be "How to make your own seedling soil" or "How to perform soil tests for various vegetables." Also, setup an interactive logic map (tree). This enables the viewer to quickly target the path of knowledge sought. ~Howgozit

  5. bonggorospe

    great it was very educational. I want to grow my own tomatoes now yipeeee

  6. bonggorospe

    Thanks i will try it for myself yahoooooo

  7. Spikeidaho

    I have never had any luck growing tomatoes from seed, but with this method I should be alright. She'll be right, mate. She'll be right. Righto.

  8. Anonymous

    very informative and easy to understand. Will there be a follow up explaining what to happen when seed are ready to move. H.Tarry

  9. Louise Thorn

    A good video, but I WISH IT WOULD NOT KEEP STOPPING!