Backyard Food-Growing, Organic Vegetable Gardening, Fruit Tree Growing, Winter Sowing, Jug Seed Sowing, Juicing, Smoothie Tips for New and Seasoned Gardeners and People Committed To Healing and Staying Healthy
Come see this last view of my vegetable seedlings before they get taken outside for hardening.
Hardening seedlings is necessary process when you grow your seedlings indoors in a window or under a grow light. When grown indoors they are delicate and tender and not ready to be out in the weather and elements.
Once they are grown and ready to get planted outside, you need to start taking them out for a few hours in semi-shade. Then they come back indoors for the night.
You repeat this process every day for a few weeks, each day being out a few more hours until they are little toughies and ready for their permanent outdoor home. ========== Subscribe to my JuicingGardener Channel: http://www.youtube.com/juicinggardener ==========
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Most people just let their lettuce go to seed and bolt and stop eating it way too early. I get major mileage out of my lettuce and greens and have some tricks up my sleeve to use it ALL! No Waste. It’s so expensive to buy good organic lettuces and greens so it’s great to always have some growing in your garden.
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I have a new video for you! Click below to learn how to grow and save your own fresh Thyme!
Hi folks, This fresh organic thyme was grown in a 2 x 3 foot by 8 inch growing tub in my personal garden. Watch –> How To Dehydrate THYME From Your Garden – Preserve Your Thyme and other Herbs Stop using old stale herbs from the grocery store or big box stores. It’s so easy to learn to grow your own herbs and preserve them fresh (even if you don’t have a dehydrator)! Watch as I show you how I grow, collect, dehydrate and preserve the herb THYME for cooking. Smells and tastes divine.
Today is my big CARROT REVEAL DAY! Watch as I harvest my organic carrots that were grown in 5 gallon buckets. I love carrots for juicing, salads, stir frys and just for snacking. These were baby “Little Finger” carrots.
Why Winter Sowing Method to grow your vegetable seedlings?
Winter Sowing method is an easy, cheap (almost free) method to grow your seedlings in free repurposed milk/pop/water/juice jugs outdoors in the snow or cold weather. You put them outdoors in winter and then in spring, the seedlings grow, they turn into gorgeous seedlings that will fill the jugs and you can then transplant them wherever you like!
Top 15 Benefits of Winter Sowing for YOU and Your Family:
1 ~ Save a ton of money not having to buy expensive organic or heirloom seedlings at $4-$6 each every season! Growing from seed is MUCH more economical than buying seedlings!
2 ~ No more hassles with grow lights hanging over your soil and seeds indoors all winter. No special equipment purchases like greenhouses, grow lights or heat mats are even needed!
3 ~ Big savings on electricity from leaving grow lights, heat mats and heat lamps on 16 hours a day every day.
4 ~ Save space in your home by not having your house taken over by seedlings for several months a year. Winter Sowing takes little space out in the yard. You can grow a ton of seedlings in a small number of jugs that will nestle nicely together in a small area. Good for balconies, patios and smaller yards too.
5 ~ Not having to ‘harden’ your seedlings (ie taking them indoors, outdoors, indoors, outdoors… for several weeks before leaving them outdoors for good. This is a HUGE time saver! And your plants will be much hardier and stronger than those grown indoors.
6 ~ Seedlings are actually stronger, bigger and healthier when the seeds germinate outdoors in the elements. They grow tremendous root systems in the Winter Sowing jugs!
7 ~ You KNOW the quality of your veggies will be perfect because YOU grew them (Quality Control) ie no toxic pesticides, fungicides, insecticides, herbicides were used to grow them…
8 ~ Your seeds will be protected from harsh rains and wash-aways, predatory birds and animals and insects, harsh winds…
9 ~ Makes winter more fun. It’s super exciting to get out of the house and go out in the snow to peek inside to see if they are growing yet. I confess some days I will go peek several times a day and I swear I see them growing in a day!
10 ~ Stops gardeners from going crazy in the winter with nothing to grow!
11 ~ No Waste. Getting to repurpose, reuse, recycle our precious earth’s resources by using empty plastic jugs for your mini-greenhouses.
12 ~ No Cold Stratification needed (this is the chilling or freezing of some seeds to soften them before they will germinate) It is not necessary at all with Winter Sowing. The method does it for you automatically!
13 ~ Time Saver for you! Winter sown seeds will germinate at the exact correct time for their variety or species. There’s no need to read the seed packets or count calendar days to try and schedule your planting for proper germination time. Mother Nature will figure that out for them. You just put them out and they’ll sprout when they’re ready!
14 ~ SIMPLICITY! Once you get your jugs prepped, seeds in good organic potting mix and jugs back outside, it’s pretty much ‘set it and forget it’ unless you’re in a warm or hot climate in which you may have to water a bit more. It’s a hands-off method which frees your time up for even more food growing and life enjoyment!
15 ~ Easy to Do. No special skills or experience is required. You can teach your kids to do it with you. Create confident young lifetime food gardeners!
Watch ALL the Winter Sowing how-to & big reveal videos here: Winter Sowing | Growing Vegetable, Herb & Fruit Seedlings in the Snow or Cold Weather! ❅❄ http://tinyurl.com/zoq83f7
Watch as I show you 2 different methods to grow basil seedlings in plastic jugs outdoors in winter or early spring for EARLY HARDENED transplants in late spring. You want tall big basil plants or tiny microgreen type basil plants. You can do both! No more indoor growing. No more grow lights! Winter Sowing Method. Grow large, hardened organic seedlings for next to nothing $! https://goo.gl/24sNxT
