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If you sow seeds directly into your grow-boxes, remember these points:
- Use certified seed, whenever possible. (Certified seed is produced under more rigid inspection.)
- Don’t plant too early, while the soil is cold!
- Do not cover seeds deep. Use the following guidelines.
Covering Seeds
- Tiny seeds—do not cover except with sand or peat moss
- Medium seeds—cover 1/4” to 1/2”
- Large seeds—cover 3/4” to 1”
Planting Very Small Seeds
The following procedure permits you to plant small seeds evenly and quickly by hand so that thinning later is unnecessary.
Step 1: Mix Seed with Filler
Mix the desired amount of seed with sawdust or sand. Mix 100 parts of sawdust or sand to 1 part seed.
Step 2: Make Depressions
Using a piece of 1” diameter plastic pipe, or something similar, make a depression in the soil along each length of the grow-boxes by pressing evenly on the pipe. The space between the depressions should be at least 10 inches and the depression ¾” deep.
Step 3: Spread Seed
Take a small amount of the seed mixture in the hand. With a swinging motion of the hand and arm spread the seed in the depressions along the length of the beds.
Step 4: Water Soil
Water the custom-soil gently after sowing the seeds.
Step 5: Cover Seeds
Cover the seed in the depression by pulling a pointed hand tool gently next to the row of seeds. Do not cover very deep.
Optional: Cover the seeds with a layer of burlap or cheese cloth.
Step 6: Keep Soil Wet
Keep the soil wet during germination. If the seeds are covered with burlap, gently water through the burlap covering until the seeds begin to sprout.
Step 7: Remove Burlap
Remove the burlap covering as soon as you see the first sprouts. Failure to do this will result in weak, thin seedlings. Seedlings require lots of light quickly.
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Tip of the Day
It's Fall and time to prepare your soil for winter! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, October, November, and and early December are the time you need to be cleaning up your garden and preparing it for next spring's planting. You can even plant hardy garlic, which will overvegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.
The freeze/tha-winter and get an early spring start. Before snow covers your garden mae sure all old materials are either removed from the garden, or if they are clean of weed seeds and disease, till them into your soil-beds. Also, when it's not too muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly in the Fall helps keep the weeds from getting a big head start on you before you can get into the garden in the spring, and is very important.
If you grew a Mittleider garden this year, your beds will benefit from tilling or digging. You can apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area now, then till them in, or wait until early spring. Either way after tilling place strings on your stakes, and re-make the beds.
Be sure to re-check the level of each bed accurately, since they may have changed a little. Do not be satisfied with anything more than 1" fall in a 30'-long soil-bed. Good Gardening!
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