Tired of failed seed start­ing exper­i­ments? Come dis­cover tried and true methods of start­ing your own plants that will not only survive, but thrive.

AdAgrA Conference 2024: Growing Better

<p>Tired of failed seed start­ing exper­i­ments? Come dis­cover tried and true methods of start­ing your own plants that will not only survive, but thrive.</p>

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AdAgrA: Adventist Agriculture Association

Home Gardening

Darlene Keith

Plan It, Grow It, Eat It!

Paul Dysinger

Seed Starting Tricks: How to Start Seedlings That Thrive

Brianna Beckner

Super Simple, Savvy Soil Blocking

John Dysinger

Dying of Thirst? Making Sure Your Parched Plants are Suitably Satiated

Daniel Nicholls

Beating the Botanical Besiegement

Winter Harvest Secrets: How to Extend Your Growing Season

Seth Shaffer

Soil Health for the Home Gardener Part 1

Soil Health for the Home Gardener Part 2

The Perpetual Harvest Hack: How to Grow a Continual Harvest All Year Round

Save that Seed!

The Ultimate Pest Control Formula: How to Beat Bugs Organically

My name is Paul Dysinger and I grew up, everywhere we went we had a garden.

She was always growing something, taking plant cuttings with us on airplane, because we lived overseas for many years.

I was born in Sudan, ended up spending time in Tanzania and Yemen.

And so my mom would bring cuttings with us on the airplane, or she would take her compost with her from 1 place to the next place.

So she is the real deal when it comes to a green thumb gardener.

So we always had a garden, we always grew something, but it wasn't until my teens that we moved to Tennessee and my dad ended up partnering with his brother John on Bountiful Blessings Farm.

And I worked on the family commercial farm for many years and then branched off and started teaching gardening on a home level and a homestead level and then from there it has grown into now where we develop garden and farm planning software and we'll give you a little peek at that.

Probably not in this class, but another later class.

We'll have some flyers that we'll hand out a little bit later though if you're interested.

But today, this morning, we're going to be talking about seed starting tricks and how to start seedlings that thrive.

And basically we're taking from the experience on the commercial farm, you know, starting tons of plants, hundreds, thousands of starts.

How can you take that and apply it on the home level and be more efficient and productive with your starts?

Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer as we get started.

Heavenly Father, thank you for this time that we can come together, that we can talk about starting seeds, and I just pray that you would send your Holy Spirit to come into our hearts.

We know your word is a seed that comes, and we want it to sprout and grow just like we're talking about these plants sprouting and growing.

So thank you for this time that we can think about it and please bless us with your presence here in Jesus name.

All right, So seed starting tricks how to start seedlings that thrive how many of you have started your own seedlings before?

All right, I think most of you how many of you have not started your own seedlings before?

Okay, we got we got a good little number here as well So we're gonna be talking about some some tips and tricks.

We're going to talk about direct seeding because there's 2 ways that you can seed your plants.

You can seed them inside when you plan to transplant them outside later, right?

Or you can direct seed your seeds right into the garden itself.

So we're going to talk about direct seeding.

We'll talk about transplanting, which is the other method of seeding them inside, getting them ready to transplant outside.

And we'll talk a little bit about why we like to use soil blocks when we start seeds.

And we will give you our potting mix recipe.

And we will talk about transplanting successfully and some tips on how you can actually transplant those plants out successfully.

So just a quick reminder, I was told as a presenter that if within the first 5 minutes you decide that this isn't the class for you, you're welcome to go find another class.

If this is the class for you, then stick with us and we will walk through our training here.

And also a quick reminder, I will try and save time for questions and answers at the end of the class here.

So if you can hold your questions, which means if you have a pen and paper, feel free to write those questions down and we'll try and save some time to cover question and answers at the end.

That's primarily for the recording because this is being recorded for Audioverse.

You probably hear this at the beginning of every session, but all right quick reminder.

Why would you direct some seed crops and some crops and why would you transplant some crops?

Am I in the way of you guys being able to see the screen?

Oh yeah, we've got limitations here, don't we?

I'll just try and stand back a little bit as we go through.

Number 1, it's not practical or economical to transplant some plants.

And some examples of those are like tap-rooted crops like carrots and parsnips.

You're going to plant so many carrots in a row that it just doesn't make sense to transplant them.

The other aspect with carrots and tap-rooted crops themselves especially, is a tap-rooted crop is going to throw down a root deep quickly, right?

And they actually don't like being transplanted as much.

They don't like the, their roots being messed around with.

And so taprooted crops just are known for not being very good transplanters, even if you were going to want to transplant them.

By the way, some herbs, example of herbs of those would be like cilantro and dill.

Also you would want to just direct seed in your garden.

Legumes, peas, beans, you know, they're larger seeds and there are some times where it may make sense to transplant a legume.

But oftentimes, it makes most sense just to direct seed them into your garden.

I'll give you an example of a time where it makes sense to transplant.

It's actually another large seed, but corn.

Oftentimes you'll direct seed corn, but it can be beneficial to transplant corn in the case where you have issues with birds.

Have any of you had issues with birds in your corn?

So we've had issues with birds in the corn.

You plant them, they just start to sprout, the birds see those sprouts coming up and they just come and peck off your corn.

Whereas if you start your corn in a large soil block or a pot or something, then you can transplant it out later when it's tall enough that you're not gonna have issues with the birds.

So that's an example where you might transplant some of those larger seeds.

And then you have fast-growing crops like radishes and spinach.

Again, you're also going to be seeding these pretty close together.

Although, I have to say that we have transplanted a lot of spinach And there are times where it can be beneficial to transplant spinach versus direct seeding it, but it's often direct seeded as well.

And then herbs can often go either way except for those tap-rooted ones that I mentioned earlier where you're pretty much gonna most always want to direct seed those.

So, germination percentages for direct seeding are actually typically lower than the percentage on the seed packet.

So you're gonna get your seed packet and it's gonna say 90% germination rate, right?

That is being tested under a nice environment where everything is perfect, right?

And they will do germination tests on those seeds and that's when they're gonna give you that germination rate.

Out in the garden itself with the elements and the Yeah, it's just not the ideal germination spot usually.

So your germinations are typically going to be a little bit lower than on the on the seed packet.

And so what we encourage doing is allowing for a fudge factor of 50 to 100% germination, which means, an example is if you want to plant, if you want a plant every 4 inches, let's say you're planting peas or green beans, which oftentimes you'll want plants spaced about 4 inches apart.

Then what we encourage doing is seeding a seed every 2 inches, and as those plants come up, you can always go in and you can thin them out.

And how many of you find it really hard to thin plants out?

For example, with beets, you can do this with peas too, it's really great.

But if you plant them thickly and then you come in and you thin them out.

So like with with beets you can eat the little beet greens.

Here's another great example with beets is you can thin them out to the size where they'll grow baby beets and then you can come in and you can harvest you can thin out the baby beets which are going to be about that big and The leftovers are going to grow up to the full beet size.

So you can maximize your harvest actually by using a thinning method.

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