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Great tips. I like the vermiculite for the tops idea. Breaks my heart when I lose peppers or some tomatoes to dampening off.
Curtis, thanks for your videos first of all. Secondly, I was thinking that I read in Jean-Martin Fortier's book that they transplanted everything. I'm only a third through your book now and I'm wanting to transplant everything. I have my seeds and my trays and my soil…I am building a greenhouse this week with repurposed wood and windows I've collected off craigslist. I found a cooler today for $500, I am making contacts from folks I've met while collecting stuff from restaurants. Now though I'm wanting to just transplant everything, because I can and I have folks who will help me. Is this possible…even carrots, onions, and radishes (root vegetables? Thanks in advance. Teresa
What kills me about tomatoes it that I go through this very process of germinating the few plants my garden will handle. A delicate process. But I get volunteer plants as if it nothing. I shake my fist in the air to those volunteers. Bastards!
I never understood why you don't just start the seed in the bigger pots
Watering from the bottom also helps with fungus gnats. In my efforts to deal with fungus gnats, I will take the bag of potting soil and open it up outside and let it set outside for a day or two and allow nature to take its course. Then I bring in the soil, and plants my seeds. I have found this to work great and I have no fungus gnats this year.
Why don't you use soil blocks for tomatoes? Is that something you don't do anymore, or do you just not do them for tomatoes specifically? Thanks!
Urban Farmer, how do you deal with people who steal from your farm? Do you encounter those kinds of issues?
hey there Curtis. any idea as when I should be starting my tomatoes? last frost day here is may 25th.. I'm in Winnipeg so way colder zone here. 8 weeks before last expected frost date would that be good you reckon? I'm halfway through your book, it's pretty awesome man thanks for writing all of that 🙂
Do you ever ask yourself the question of; How organic is my process when I use bagged products that have to be handled, sold & transported via human interaction? I've watched a few of your vids now and while im enjoying your methods, organic seems like a very loose term.
where do you get those white plastic bottom trays? I have not seen them before
Hi Curtis, here in France instead of vermiculite we use river sand, even the large nurserie companies who sell millions of soil blocks do so. Keep up the good work I really appreciate your videos.
chris i seen green houses whith double walled poly whith air pump in between the wall and i dramticly keep the heat in the green house so u can start earllier and finish later
Where do you get those white bases to go with the standard flats for watering?
just wondering where you get those 1020 thin white trays? I'd like to get some.
You may have gone over this in a prior video but how do you tell when seedlings need watering and do you water from underneath until the tops are saturated?
At what temperature do u keep the tomato s from start to finish??in your greenhouse s help
Unfortunately, most of the alfalfa meal, and soy meal sold as certified organic fertilizer in the USA is derived from Roundup Ready alfalfa and soy. Manure and blood/bone meal are great if you know their source, but most of the certified organic bone meal, blood meal, and manure on the market in the USA is derived from factory farmed GMO fed livestock. I'm not sure about that brand that you use. They do seem better than Jobes brand. Anyways, I wanted to tell you that I have been testing out some different soil amendments that have been working really well for me. They are Crab Meal, Kelp Meal, castor meal, sesame meal, and rice bran. And of course my compost, which is made out of 49% leaves 49% grass clippings + 2% coffee grounds, and is filled with worms.
Why not just start the seed in the bigger container?
You're my hero !
you can put 1/3 soil in container, then put the start in it, then just put 2/3 soil over top in and around the tomato start, shake and pat side of container to firm soil, and there you go. you can do a flat in a fraction of the time that way, no poking holes and Toms are great
Just caught the farming bug. Is it too late to start planting either seeds or seedlings?
I Live in Central NC and I feel I may have missed my window.
Hi we never water them from the top I have to water from the bottom to go to the roots correct
Is it true that horse manure burns your crops?
You are great inspiration to me. I hope I succeed 20% of what you're doing. Wish me luck. Thanks for wonderful lessons. Btw I am from Sydney.
Gypsy Farmer
Hi Curtis I enjoy your videos. Good info. I like the bottom watering. I haven't seen anything about PH ????
Wow, great videos thank you for sharing your expertise. Does anyone plant on paper? I've been experimenting with putting down 50 pound paper, the brown rolls, to block weeds then a couple inches of finished compost, the leafy greens do quite well and few weeds get past the paper, it decintigrates in about 2-3 weeks.
Having had a lot of problems last year with damping off, I found a very nice solution that seemed to work well. I sprinkle cinnamon on top of the potted tomatoes. Damping off is a fungus and cinnamon is an anti-fungal. Good luck. Love the series. Hope someday to enjoy some of your success.
I know you quit doing tomatoes, but I am glad these videos are still here. Last year I bought some extra deep 72 cell plug trays. The plants loved them, but how to get the babies out? Now I know: stick a woodscrew into the base! Brilliant.
You should pain in white your ceiling … Tu devrais peindre ton plafond en blanc partout … more light babyface ^_^
I've been watching many your video some seem to be quite old but I'm thinking about experimenting a little bit with a little garden spot had behind my house that I can make and see if I can actually do this and still do job I do truck driving it is a time-consuming since I'm out so long