🌱 Kickstart Your Garden with Ease! 🌱 This list has everything you need to start seeds —from the perfect trays to grow lights. These essentials will set you up for success. Happy growing! 🌿✨
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Garden Planning
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Soil Blocking/Trays
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Soil- DIY Mix Ingredients
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Direct Sowing
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Indoor setup
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Seeds
Garden Planning
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A garden journal is great to have to plan and organize when you need to start seeds
Grow Garden Planner and Journal
Soil Blocking/Trays
Soil blocking is a great alternative rather than using trays or pots for seed starting. All you need is soil/mix and the soil blocker
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Great for starting smaller seeds/ slow growing seeds
Soil Block Maker - Micro 20
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Great for putting soil blocks on. These aren't the largest trays so may want to get larger ones.
Trays for soil blocks
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Larger soil Blockers
Hand-held Soil Blocker 2 Inch Seed Makers
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These trays makes it so easy to pop out the seedlings once ready to transplant
Burpee SuperSeed Seed Starting Tray |
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Another Tray option
72 Cell Self-Watering Ultimate Growing System
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Larger Tray
SuperSeed Seed Starting Tray, 16 XL Cell
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A great cheap option potting up seedlings. Was my go to for years
Solo Cups!
Soil- DIY Mix Ingredients
My DIY mix: 3 part coconut coir - 1 part perlite - 1 part vermiculite - 1 part compost
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Base for DIY seed starting mix
Coco Bliss (10lbs) - Organic Coco Coir for Plants
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Used for DIY Mix
Organic Vermiculite
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Use in DIY Mix
Perlite
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I have had great success with this seed starting mix
Espoma Organic Seed Starter Potting Soil
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Compost! Use in DIY mix
Ribbon Organics OMRI Organic Compost 7.9 Gal
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Use for fertilizing seedlings every week once they get a set of ‘true leaves’ FYI this smells so bad
Neptune's Harvest Fish & Seaweed Fertilizer
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Like this one because is finer
Burpee Vermiculite
Direct Sowing
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Square foot gardening seed guide for direct sowing
Seeding Square - Seed Spacer Tool
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Love this for quicker direct sowing when planting multiple seeds
Seed Dibber, Multifunctional Seed Spacer Tool
Indoor setup
You do not need all these things to start seeds indoors. previously I just put all my seed trays on the laundry room counter with lights hanging. Some people even use a sunny window. There are various grow light options as well!
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Heating pads I use for starting peppers and tomatoes
2 Pack Seedling Heat Mat,
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These are Majority of grow lights I use
LBW Full Spectrum Grow Light 2 Pack
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Adjustable shelves so you can move them up and down as needed as seedlings grow. especially those that will be indoors longer before transplanting
4-Shelf Heavy Duty Steel Wire Rack
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Never used these bulbs but have seen several people have success with them.
