Prepare Seed Starting Trays for Large Seeds

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How to start your vegetable garden seeds with success!

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For larger seeds such as peas, squash, zucchini, or cucumbers, direct seeding into the garden is often preferable once the danger of frost has passed in your area (check a planting zone map, usually on the back of seed packets). However, if you choose to start them indoors using seed starting trays (like the Ferry-Morse Pro-Hex trays), you'll need to fill the tray cells with a seed-starting mix. The presenter demonstrates a quick method using a cup to scoop and spread the fine, powdery seed-starting mix evenly across the trays. This method helps prevent spillage and creates a relatively uniform base. Once filled, gently pat down the soil to ensure it's level. After filling, lightly water the soil in the trays using a watering can with a fine rose attachment to avoid displacing the soil. Repeat this until the soil is consistently moist, but not waterlogged. This process can be messy, so it's recommended to do it outdoors.

Goal: Fill seed starting trays with soil and moisten them for large seed planting.

Tools and materials

Cup (or scoop)
Watering can with fine rose
Larger seeds (e.g
peas
squash
zucchini
cucumber)
Seed starting mix

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bigger like that right there now you could sprout these seeds and you could really sprout them a bigger seed in this tray right here but I prefer to just put these seeds straight into the garden they do just fine if you really want to get crazy you can put them in this tray right here but odds are you could just put the larger seeds right into the garden you just want to make sure that you don't have a frost risk so you need to check your map right on the back here and it has the time when you're supposed to plant them and the distance and then everything you need to know all right I'll put my big seeds back in my big seed bag because these are going directly in the garden typically our last frost here in North Carolina is around April 15th if I put these seeds in the ground it's bound to frost so also we have some sets these are sets I'll get a little close-up for you here so these are sets these are for growing red onions okay so you'll just plant that and that guy will turn into a great big old fat onion pretty cool we won't put these in any kind of seed tray we'll put them directly in the ground and you can plant these a little bit earlier in the year so we've got our tools we got our sharpie we've got our pencil we've got our tape we've got our scissors we've got things that we need from marking these guys and sometimes if I'm going to plant tomatoes all one it's windy out here sometimes if I'm planting tomatoes and I'm planting all one tray I'll just tape the package to the top of the tray right here okay now you want to think about this and stick around to the end of the video we're going to talk about after your seeds sprout once we show you how to set up this tray so these packages do not come with the little labels I like these little labels for sticking in the dirt I don't like them for the peat pucks but these little labels are very handy for this kind of tray so we'll get rid of our little guard here we'll toss them to the side and you can see there's a preparation right here you can see how I folded it in two so you have to plant trays right here okay totally separated if you want to get all crazy you can label each plant tray or if you want to get real crazy and label each row you can do that too that's where you're gonna need your masking tape because there just aren't enough of these little guys okay so we're going to show you exactly what you need to do get everything out of the way here I'll show you what you need to do in order to get…

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