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Plant Small Seeds in Peat Pellets

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How to start your vegetable garden seeds with success!

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To plant small seeds like Roma tomatoes, use a tool like a mechanical pencil, stick, or toothpick to gently poke a small hole (about 1/4 inch deep) into the center of each cooled, expanded peat pellet. For convenience, plant seeds row by row. If the hole is too tight, carefully widen it. Then, using your fingers or tweezers, place two to three small seeds into each hole. This ensures better germination rates. If multiple seeds germinate, you will thin them later. Cover the seeds by gently patting the peat moss back over the hole. Repeat this process for all desired planting cells. Ensure you keep track of what seeds are planted in which rows by labeling them.

Goal: Plant small seeds correctly in the prepared peat pellets.

Tools and materials

  • Small scissors
  • Ferry-Morse Roma VF Tomato Seeds
  • Labels or masking tape

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of these but what I'll do is I'll take my little lead pencil and we're going to start right here in the center and I'll go right in and I'll poke a little tiny hole right there just right in the center and some of these bags like you can see this one they're a little bit tight so you want to open that up just a little bit and then poke it down in there just ever so slightly literally about that far okay so we're not going in very deep here we're going in probably a quarter of an inch we want to go through every single one of these and that way you know all of them are done and then once you plant the seeds we're going to tap them close and I'll show you we're just going to take our finger that's tool number two and we're going to tap them close we're just going to pet peat moss back over top or soil back over top of our seat now a general rule of thumb for seeds then these are our Roma tomatoes that we're going to be planting today a general rule of thumb for seeds is you want to plant twice the thickness of the seed and you'll see how tiny these tomato seeds are they're really really tiny alright guys let me be totally honest with you I typically will do this inside my house on the coffee table pretty much I'll lay these out I'm watching a little TV in the evening time and I'll start poking seeds in okay we're just going to do a couple rows and every once in a while you might get one that's a little bit of a mess like this so just Pat him back in there Pat it back down and then take your PIN or your pencil or your toothpick or whatever and fix it back up so we've got this all settled we're going to go ahead and put our seeds in again we're using a Roma tomato seed and these are the faring Morse brand seeds pretty much the stuff you see in the little kiosk and Lowe's or Walmart or wherever you might shop so we're going to pour out some seeds in the palm of our hand and these are tiny little seeds guys see how tiny those little seeds are and what we want to do is we want to put two to three seeds in each one of these little peat pucks okay and I just pinch them out of my hand you don't want to pour the whole bag in your hand at once you just want to do a couple seeds you just drop them in drop them in there so pour out about thirty seeds in your hand and then just hand pick them and drop them in okay now it really works better if you start on one side and work your way consecutively to the other in that way you don't miss any there's nothing worse and…

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