Growing Vegetables from seed to harvest

Hi Gardening Friends In this gardening article I am going to talk about how to grow vegetable transplants from seed. Well I hope everyone received all of their seed catalogs from their favorite seed companies. So I hope you order your vegetable seeds by now or in the process of doing so. This is the first of many gardening articles on how to grow your own vegetable transplants for the up and coming spring gardening 2013 growing season. Thoughout the year of 2013 I will be writing gardening articles on growing vegetables transplants and planting them outside in the garden or growing them in containers. So you will have to come back to my gardening blog to see what is happening the entire growing season spring-summer and fall. So here is what you can be doing now to have early crops of vegetables for this spring season. What you can plant now inside or in a greenhouse. Lettuce,all of the cole crops like Early Cabbage,Broccoli, Cauliflower,Brussel Sprouts,Kale and any other cold weather crops,Early Tomatoes,Early Peppers,Spinach,Beets and Carrots. Yes you can grow Beets and Carrots in the greenhouse or inside your house for an early crop of both. Here are step by step instructions on how to sow the above vegetables seeds. What you need to get started are germination mix or seed starting mixture. I have a picture of germination mix that I use in my greenhouse operation. The next step if you don't have new or clean plastic trays or flats is to wash your flats in clorox water. Which is 1 part clorox to 3 parts water. Here is picture of clean flats. Next step is to fill the flat half full of the germination mixture. Now that you got your seed flat ready to sow your seeds. Get your seed packet that you would like to sow your seeds in the flat. What I use alot is to sow seeds is a seedmater tool. Picture of seed master tool. Your can get them in mail order seed catalogs. You open the packet of seeds and be careful when doing this and pour them into the seedmaster tool. And start sowing them over the flat the seed master tool spreads the seed more evenly then by doing it by hand. So here I will tell you which of the above seeds to cover lightly with soil and which ones not to cover. Do not cover Lettuce,Spinach,Beets and Carrots. Now the ones to cover lightly with soil the entire cole crops,Early Cabbage,Broccoli,Cauliflower,Brussel Sprouts,Kale, Peppers and Tomatoes. Then go and mark you seed flat with the name of your seeds with a white plastic tag in the side of the flat. Now you can mist your flat with water soak the entire flat with water. But don't drown the flat. Now you can place the flat on the bench in the greenhouse or under artifical light in your house make sure that in the house that you put the flat on a propagation mat or supply some bottom heat. Most of the above seeds will germination in 10 to 14 days so keep the flat or flats evenly moist until after germination.Then cut back on the water. Well I hope this article on how to prepare and sowing seeds help the people that is willing to start their own vegetable plants from seed. Let me know how you are doing with this information. Come back for more information on gardeing and growing plants. Well Happy Gardening Gardener Den

Hi Gardening Friends! Article on Gardener's Supply Company

Hi Gardening Friends I was going through my mail today and I found that I received a catalog from Gardener's Supply Company. I really enjoy this catalog because they carry all kind of innovative products that are hard to find. Like self watering containers for vegetables and flowers. I brought some of these a few years ago and I was impress how they worked. They were great when the weather got hot the plants in the container didn't dry out like in the old days. Here how it works. Each of the Terrazza PLANTERS includes a generous self watering reservior that keeps your plants hydrated. The fill tube has a cover to prevent clogging.Level indicator tells you when to add water. wicking fabric transports water from the reservoir to thristy roots. Evaporation grill"breathes" extra moisture and oxygen into the soil. Caster are optional for the planters. So this is one item that I really like and this company carries and it works. Gardener's Supply Company haves many more unique gardening items in their catalog. They also have a website which is gardeners.com and a toll free number which you can use to call to place a order. 1-888-845-0677. I really like this company becauce of all the innovative products that they carry which you don't find any place else. I really like the self watering containers. I give this company a thumbs up. If you don't have a catalog call the 800 number and ask them to send you one. Or go on line to see what they have on their website. Email me and let me know what you think of this company. Well until next time happy gardening! Gardener Den

Some great seed companies that I like.

Hi Gardening Friends Well it time to start getting busy in the greenhouse for the up and coming spring season. I know everyday in the mail you are getting seed catalogs from seed companies from all over the United States. Well here are a few seed companies that I have dealt with over the years for my greenhouse operation. Here is a list of seed companies that I like. I have no favorites in this list. I buy seeds from them because of the different varieties that they carry. So here is a list of seed companies. 1.Stokes Seeds Company P.O.Box 548 Buffalo,NY 14240 (416)688-4300 Fax (416)684-8411 2.Johnny,s Selected Seeds 310 Foss Hill Road Abion,ME 04910 (207)437-9294 or 4301 3.W Atlee Burpee Company 300 Park Avenue Warmister.PA 18974 (215)674-4900 4.Seedway, Inc. P.O. Box 250 Hall,N.Y. 14463-0250 (315)526-6391 5.Otis Twilley Seed Co. P.O. Box 65 Trevose, PA 19047 (800)622-7333 or 232-7333 (PA) 6. Vermont Bean Seed Co. Garden Lane Fair Haven, VT 05743 (802) 265-4212 7. Tomato Growers Supply Company P.O. Box 2237 Fort Myers,Fl 33902 (813)768-1119 8. Meyer Seed Co. 600 S Caroline Street Baltimore, MD 21231 9. J.W. Jung Seed Co. 335 S. High Street Randolph, WI 53957-0001 (800) 247-5864 10.Park Seed Company, Inc. P.O. Box 46 Highway 254 North Greenwood, sc 29648-0046 (803) 223-7333 Well here is a list of ten seed companies that I have done business with over the years. I hope you look over them and call or write and ask for one of their catalogs and when they come in the mail you sit back and read and order some seeds and you begin to grow your own Vegetables and Bedding plants. So I hope I helped you in finding seeds for this spring gardens. Until next time. Gardener Den

Hi Gardening Friends. A new gardening season is about to begin!

Hi Gardening Friends A new season of growing is about to begin. Now is the time to sit down and take a look at your seed catalogs and write down what seeds you would like to buy. And what you are interested growing in your garden for the up and coming season. So take time and look at what you would be interested in growing for this year. Happy Gardening Gardener Den

Pictures of this past Christmas Poinsettias at a local greenhouse.

Hi Everyone Here are some pictures of this past Christmas Poinsettias at a local wholesale greenhouse. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Coming soon pictures of Christmas Poinsettias.

Hi Gardening Friends Well in my next blog post> I will be posting picture of this past years Poinsettias for everyone to enjoy. So I hope you all come back soon to the Gardening blog to view the pictures. Gardener Den

Hi Everyone! I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!! I will be writing some new post on gardening so I hope you come back often to read my post. So again Happy New Year!!!! 2013!!! Gardener Den