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Thursday, May 17, 2007
My compost is smellin', but my seeds are gellin'!
Just ran across this while I was looking for other things, and had to write about it. Using gel to start vegetable seeds early, including the gel recipe! Love it - this is a wonderful hack: "...Pre-germinating seed indoors is helpful in early spring because sprouted seed will grow in soils too cool for germination. It's easy to sprout seeds on moistened paper towels sealed in a plastic bag for a few days. The difficult part is to sow fragile young seedlings without injury to them. The solution is sowing in a fluid gel. ..." Link
What about other people? Yes, there are other adventerous people who
have tried this too: "...The row of tiny (almost indiscernible)
seedlings in the upper left corner of the picture is from seed simply
shaken from the seed packet. The row in the middle showing "clumps" of
larger seedlings is from unsprouted seed dropped into the soil with
cornstarch gel. The 2 (yes, only 2) plants nearest the camera are from
the sprouted seed in cornstarch gel. ..." Worth reading the etnire
thread. Link
That's all I've found so far, going to print out the recipe and try it
on some lettuce that should have been under the row covers a couple of
weeks ago.
Posted by Andrew at 2:39 PM
Edited on: Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:41 PM
Categories: Meddling Hacks, Wet Hacks
Edited on: Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:41 PM
Categories: Meddling Hacks, Wet Hacks