Introduction to Seed Starting Methods

video hey there folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer welcome back to the farm today we're going to unravel the mystery for you so if you're considering plant in the garden and you've never planted a garden we're going to go through two different ways here that you can plant your seeds for your garden now there are a million different ways there's ways with plastic cups there's ways with peat moss cups there's all sorts of different ways but these are two ways that I've had success here on our farm getting our seedlings started so come along today as we teach you a little bit about the jiffy peat pucks and this very Morris Pro X seedling tray and we'll show you what soils to use we'll talk a little bit about how this works and we'll make it easy and simple for you alright [Music] first of all guys let me welcome you to our farm this is our 200 acre farm here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina behind me you'll see our utility vehicle and this is our mobile chicken coop we have our chickens out on pasture we move that coop either every day or every other day and we let the chickens put out good old butt fertilizer for our lawn and for our pastures so it's pretty cool what we're going to be doing here is starting all of our seedlings for our garden for demonstration purposes today I'm just going to show you a few of these jiffy peat pucks and we'll go into detail about that and I'll show you how to set up these right here now you can buy any brand there'll be a link down in the video description to all the stuff that we're using today but you know you can buy any brand you can go to the store and buy it with the crazy times that we're living in right now you may just want to order it online we'll show you all the tools that you need it's not a lot of tools you just need a little bit of know-how and we'll give you details that you need to know down the road in other words what do you do after you plant the seeds how long do you wait before you put them out in the Sun what do you do if you've never planted a garden or even if you have planted a garden this should be good food for thought this is what we're gonna start with these are the jiffy peat pucks okay I put this on for a display right here but this is how the actual package will come let's set this to the side I've got some onions in here we'll talk about that in just a few minutes too so this is how it comes you're just going to reach in here I'm gonna pop this little