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Plant Seeds in Hydrated Peat Pucks

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What happens here

Once the peat pucks are fully hydrated and soft, use a small tool like a butter knife, a nail, or a sharpened pencil to create small holes in the center of each puck. The depth of the hole should be approximately twice the size of the seed. For very small seeds (like tomato seeds), create a very shallow hole. Carefully place two seeds into each hole to ensure at least one germinates. After placing the seeds, gently cover them with a small amount of peat moss using the flat end of the tool or your finger, making sure not to bury them too deeply.

Goal: Create shallow holes in the hydrated peat pucks, place two seeds in each, and gently cover them, ensuring proper planting depth based on seed size.

Tools and materials

  • Butter Knife
  • Nail
  • or Sharpened Pencil
  • Hydrated Peat Pucks
  • Other Vegetable Seeds (Lettuce)
  • Tomato Seeds (Beefsteak
  • Roma
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size garden that we're going to be planting here on the farm is about a half an acre okay that is a lot of garden a lot of garden to maintain a lot of garden to have so I suggest you start small if you're new to this and work your way up now if you don't add enough water in when you first do your jiffy pots be careful don't just pour it in there because you can hit right in the center of these little peat pots right here and you can wash out the very center which is something that you want to avoid if you do pour too much water in it you can always just tip it up like this and get rid of the water now there are three methods I like to use when planting any kind of garden vegetable I like to either use a butter knife a nail or a pencil and I'll take my pencil and sharpen it and poke a hole down in there and then I'll drop my seed in and then I'll cover it up so first thing we're gonna plant here is gonna be our beefsteak tomatoes now we're gonna get started and basically we're just going to use our nail here and you can just use any old household nail and we're gonna just poke a tiny hole in each one and kind of wallow it out just a little bit okay just ever so slightly we're going to go through and we're gonna do this with every single one of these peat pots doesn't take long now you've seen getting in a hurry we're gonna be planting the beefsteak tomato here and basically we just tear it up in here and we'll pour our seeds out in our hand tiny tiny tiny little seeds guys that is enough tomato seeds to plant your entire guard basically we'll put two of these little seeds per pod we'll continue to put the seeds in until we're done we'll go in a systematic manner in other words if you're going to do a row do a row all the way across or do a row all the way down so we're doing one row at a time all the way down here and then we'll label our little green house beefsteak tomato okay now if you drop seeds down in there which you will do it's good to have a towel sitting beside you so you can dry your fingers off but you're going to drop some seeds down in there do your best to retrieve those seeds if you don't you're gonna have little plants sprouting all over the little green house here now don't worry if you don't get them all the way down in the hole the first time you can always tuck them in take your little nail and you'll push them down into the hole guys it's the point where I asked you to click that like button if you like what you're seeing if you're…

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