Mixing Up Your Own Seed Starting Mixture
Too early to get out in the garden but I can mix up my own seed starting mixture. Does anyone else start their own seeds inside?
Very soon spring will be here and I will be outside working in the garden! In the meantime I will be starting my seeds indoors!
My heirloom seeds have arrived and some of them need to be started indoors.
My mixing up equal parts of top soil, perlite and peat moss I can make my own seed starting mixture.
Starting seeds indoors is fun and easy.
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It probably sounds like a lot going on but it works for me..I even add in some of the potash from my fireplace that I save through the winter. And get this...I DO NOT COMPOST! There's just too many mosquitos in GA for compost so I start with this good mix and that's it. Mid season I use a bit of fish emulsion but noting more and water it in good to keep it off the surface so the mosquitos won't "smell" it.
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As far as I understand the Epsom salts provides sodium, chloride and phosphorous- all of which I am told help a plant hold fluids in their plants cells. It's like if we drik salty water, we get thirsty and we go looking for water to drink. Plants apparently will up take more water if they have adequate salts in their soil. I am not any type of expert but I see Epsom salts recommended in many of the gardening books I read. In regards to composting--I call composting where you use like manure and kitchen scraps and let it decompose in a heap or a tumbler and then till that organic matter into your soil from time to time to "feed" it or "fertilize" it. I do not do any of that...I start with this mix and, as I said, THAT's It!
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