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One of my favorite things about winter is seed starting.\u00a0 Once you know your last frost date, you can easily determine what seeds can be started.\u00a0 There are two primary ways that I start seeds: soil blocking and plug trays.\u00a0 Soil blocking requires a tool<\/a> to create blocks, a specific type of soil to hold blocks together, but takes up less space.\u00a0 Plug trays are great for seeds that take longer to grow and require more room to grow, like eucalyptus and lisianthus.\u00a0 Both are beneficial methods.\u00a0 I also use heat mats, humidity domes, and shop lights during the seed starting process.\u00a0 All are linked here<\/a> (affiliate link).<\/p>\n

Soil Blocking allows the roots to air prune and creates vigorous plants.\u00a0 Sanitized meat trays make a great place to start 40 seeds at a time.\u00a0 I highly recommend that you plant seeds of the same variety on whatever tray you choose to use.\u00a0 Each type of flower germinates in it’s own time.\u00a0 For more about seed starting using soil blocks, watch this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whether I use plug trays or soil blocks, most seeds start on a heat mat and underneath a humidity dome with water daily until the majority of seeds germinate.\u00a0 Once that happens, I remove the humidity dome, take them off of the heat mat, and put them under lights.\u00a0 Shop lights from any home improvement store work great.\u00a0 I continue to water them daily and fertilize seedlings once a week with diluted fish fertilizer before hardening off for a week outside in a shady area.\u00a0 Once they have been hardened off, they are ready to plant.\u00a0 Let me know if you have any questions about seed starting in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite things about winter is seed starting.\u00a0 Once you know your last frost date, you can easily determine what seeds can be started.\u00a0 There are two primary ways that I start seeds: soil blocking and plug trays.\u00a0 Soil blocking requires a tool to create blocks, a specific type of soil to hold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","tag-seeds"],"yoast_head":"\nSeed Starting - Thrive Flower Farm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of my favorite things about winter is seed starting.\u00a0 Once you know your last frost date, you can easily determine what seeds can be started.\u00a0 There are two primary ways that I start seeds: soil blocking and plug trays.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thriveflowerfarm.com\/seed-starting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seed Starting - 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