All right miss Joellen, seed or transplant, which one?
- Oh, well, you know, that depends.
- [Chris] Depends, okay.
- I actually do both.
'cause I go by, like a lot of people do, the length of time that it takes a seed to germinate,
and grow to a producing fruit.
And if it's a long time, there's so many things that can go wrong, like there's the weather,
there's diseases, disease pathogens, there's weeds, there's all sorts of those pressures
in the ground, and if you transplant ahead of time, you still have the same thing, you
don't really have all of the correct temperature or the moisture level consistent enough to
germinate seeds.
Now there are a lot of things you can buy.
You can buy grow lights, you can buy germination chambers and all sorts of things that will
help you, and you will have great success with that.
So if that's a hobby of yours and you like that, that'd be great, if you have a greenhouse,
that's even better.
But a lot of us don't have those things.
And so transplants for things that take a long time, like tomatoes, peppers, and even
cool-season crops that we can get here this month like broccoli, cauliflower and the cabbages,
the time that they have to be sown to be able to get a seed transplant is usually in the
hotter weather or too cold and so, the germination is not that great.
So buying transplants of those helps that process along.
So you've already got a plant.
But you've gotta be willing, somebody has gone to the trouble to grow that plant, so
they're gonna cost a little more than a packet of seeds.
But I like to do both.
And some of the things that I think are great to grow from seeds are sunflowers.
Beans, peas, squash.
All of those kinds of things, things that are easy to germinate, that don't take long
to germinate, are good candidates for seed production.
And things that take a long time, like tomatoes and peppers, those are better for buying transplants.
Now there are some seed productions, I have not seen anybody have transplants of carrots.
Mostly you have to seed those in the ground.
But one thing you've gotta remember, the root vegetables like that, when you sow those seeds,
they're small.
So you're gonna get a whole bunch of them coming up at once, you gotta be willing to
thin them and just leave some so there's room enough for that root to produce in the ground.
And that's the only thing, you have a little bit more work that way with those type of
seeds.
- You wanna eliminate the competition, of course.
- Yes, definitely do.
- All right.
- So that's basically, and I do both, I do some seeds, 'cause I just like watching things
grow from seeds.
But I do buy transplants, especially of broccolis and the tomatoes and things that take longer,
and I don't have a greenhouse or the facilities or the apparatuses to have those grow, so
I tend to buy those as transplants.
- I think the majority of gardeners buy transplants anyway.
Especially tomatoes and peppers, 'cause you see, a lot of those at the big box stores
and at your nurseries.
- Yeah but you don't get as much variety, the seeds, there's such a large variety of
seeds available, and you might find one that you really like, so you're willing to go to
that trouble to grow that particular one 'cause you can't find it already grown out in the
industry.
So that's one drawback of just going with transplants all the time, you're at the, whoever
wanted to grow what and is available to you, that's all you have to choose from, where
the catalog full of seeds, it's got a much wider variety of plants to choose from.
That's the only difference that I see, plus the length of time and the willingness of
you to have the right conditions for those seeds to germinate.
- Okay.
All right, so what you gonna demonstrate for us today?
- Well, I have a fun little project that kids love.
This is a good family project.
I'll do my windowsill gardening this way.
I make my own, we're into recycling, and being environmentally sustainable, so we've got
these wood newspaper pot makers.
There's all different kinds, you just buy one that you like, and this particular one
says to cut your newspaper about 3-1/2 inches by 10 inches.
And you simply take it at the edge of the pot, and you roll it.
And you fold it over the ends, and then you set it in place by doing this, see it comes
out like that.
And you pull it out, and you have a pot.
- [Chris] I think I could do that!
- And you can, the thing is with the newspapers now, the ink is soy-based.
So you can just plant this directly in the ground, but then you will fill it with soil,
this is a germination type soil, so it's a fine, 'cause it's for seeds.
So any kind of germination soil will do.
And you put it in, I have this little tray that I put it in, and here's some squash,
we'll plant some squash, and we've got some sunflowers.
A lot of people say plant one.
- Gotta plant more than one.
- This is windowsill gardening so I'll plant like two or three.
But you just, remember, the seeds are big, so you're gonna put this down in the soil
about twice the width of the seed.
So I'll set it in place, and then I simply push it down.
And then I'll water it, and the good thing about this is you can water the tray, and
it'll soak it up so you don't have to keep pouring over the top.
And then take your pencil and your popsicle stick, and you can write, well, this is zucchini,
so you can set it right there like that, and then it's labeled, and when it comes up, you'll
know what was in that pot.
And you can see sometimes, windowsills, if you wanna keep the temperature nice, you'll
put a piece of plastic over it, kinda make a little greenhouse in your windowsill.
And when they do germinate and come up, they don't all come up.
This one may not germinate and there'll be plants in all these others.
There might be one or there might be two, you just never know.
It's not an exact science.
You put it in a sunny window, I say either west or south.
I have put 'em in east windows but don't have as much luck.
Because the south and the west the sun stays in the windows a little bit longer, is a little
bit hotter.
They seem to germinate better there.
But it's not exact because you know, the fluctuates from morning to night, and your house temperature
isn't always right, it's dry, and you may forget to water, so it's not an exact science
but it sure is a lot of fun.
- So this is something that you do regularly.
- I do it every year just 'cause it's fun.
- Look at the look on her face, can't you tell it's fun?
She's like a kid, okay, that is neat, something to do with the kids, get them interested.
- Get them interested in gardening.
And then take the kids and you go outside, once you have them, and you plant them in
the ground, and then they get to water 'em, and take care of 'em, and collect the fruit,
and you cook with it, and they eat more vegetables.
- That sounds good.
One last question though.
- Sure.
- Can you actually plant that in the ground, like that, with the paper?
- Yes.
- Okay.
'Cause it will degrade--
- It will degrade, yeah.
Sure will.
- Good deal.
We appreciate that demonstration, miss Joellen, all right.
Thank you.
- No problem.
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