I have never had any luck starting marigolds from seed in spite of the fact that literally everybody says they are the easiest seeds to start 🤷🏽♀️ But this year, I got a response from Kevin at Epic Gardening (and owner of Botanical Interests seeds) and he said to just scatter them on top of the soil and then sprinkle vermiculite over them. The vermiculite allows light through but keeps the soil from drying out too fast. Well … guess what??!!!!! I have marigold seedlings this year! 🎉🎉 Woohoo!!!
and this why u stopped a little the garden.. u needed challenge.. once u start cut flowers...its amazing. i grow about 100 kinds... and 1400 plants... in a small garden in montreal canada. and still have mostly vedgies and fruits.. but have 7 bouquets of flowers every 2 days for me or for gifts.. or sell!
I love your videos. I am laughing so hard with tears in my eyes. This has to be one of my favorite videos, Rachel. The look on your face ripping peppers off the bush while talking about how much fun it is gardening then throwing tomatoes. Your dog scratching the chair before settling. Todd and the toilets. 😂 This is the perfect example of my gardening days. 😂❤😂
I started a lot more flowers from seed this year than ever before. Starting flowers feels like less pressure than food crops, like there's less to lose if they don't work. My veggies I have all counted out and depend on them, but flowers feel like a bonus. So if they work, great! If they don't, sow direct. Good luck with yours!
I wanted to do flower farming a few years ago. I think you’ll be better at it than I was, it didn’t work out well for me. It seemed like a bigger learning curve coming from veggie gardening than I expected. Your seedlings are doing amazing! You’re a natural gardener.
I have to chuckle over morning glories. As a kid I had to hoe them out of the garden. I had no idea people planted them on purpose as a flower, when I see them as a pesky weed.
This is my first year with flowers as well. Morning glories (in the south 😮), marigolds, zinnias, sweet peas and snapdragons. Fingers crossed. They are all planted out now, here in SC. Next year starting nasturtium and will start geraniums in the winter. They take forever.
If you can find one of those little fans that clips onto a surface, put those in your greenhouses to help give it some more air flow. That will stop the green algae from forming on top of your soil. You might need to add some neem oil to a gallon watering can in case of those little gnats from getting into the soil and laying their eggs.
Beautiful seedlings. I'm hardening off all my starts this week, as we are about to last avg frost date of 14th. I too am doing the white marigold. They sprouted so fast and I started them a month ago. Already potted them up twice and they are outgrowing the quart containers. I got 100% germination on that same seed packet you are using...awesome stuff. And its my furst year of flowers from seed. So far so good. Only iffy ones are my purple petunias. Good germination, but not growing very much. We'll see.....
I was giggling. I am starting a lot of flowers this year for the first time and have no idea where I’m putting them outside. Lol. I use vermiculite to cover my seeds lightly and it works amazingly.
I was so excited to find the sprayer that you suggested at Dollar General. It works wonderfully! Thanks for the recommendation. Last year I didn't have even 1 pepper come up. I'll buy them at the Mennonite greenhouse instead this year. I have broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage started and growing in the window sill. They are doing great. I started tomatoes a few days ago and am anxious to see them break ground. Thanks for all your motivation.
We have always considered Morning Glory a weed!!! The red sounds Beautiful!!! The only color I have ever seen is white with light purple stripes in them!!! I'm sorry I have no hints for you!!! I have always planted flowers that I have bought grown!!! God Bless Us All!!!
Sounds like a beautiful design plan. Best of luck Rachel. The plants hardening off are huge. WOW. Nice. Our backyard garden space is limited so no cabbage for us. Looking forward.
You're frost date is about a week ahead of ours here in Eastern Ontario. I will be starting my flowers this coming week. And any veggies that didn't germinate or I missed. Your starts are doing so great. I have to fertilize mine.
we do as weel as paper shred and kitchen scraps since its hard for me to compost since i cant stand a lot( i was in a semi truck accident t boned from the side) i also try and buy soil thats in a bag thats ripped or old and supplement with nori water and other things
We have morning glories growing up one end of our porch. Great for shade, but the seed goes everywhere. We planted the original seeds in 2015 & they come back every year in PA
I started cosmos, nasturtium, Hollywood's, bee balm, milkweed 4 days ago and half are up. I did kale and pak choi at the same time, those are up too. My flat of basil is just sprouting. This week I will be planting tomatoes.
I repeat what others are saying. Nasturtium needs to be filed a little to break through the hard shell. I have fantastic germination on them since learning this!
My mom got a wild flower pack of seeds and told me she separated them all and then sprouted them in a baggies in the window so she's not staring at the dirt waiting to see if anything germinates😂
I got my onion transplants from Dixondale farms and some others from the store. I planted 136 onions yesterday...my first thing planted for my 2024 garden!! I really wish I did better with growing from seeds, but they always get too leggy. I will keep trying though.
Thanks for the video tour of your seedlings. I can compare mine to yours. I just have 40% germination with my tomatoes so far. - Just placed by a window, inside. Used my bookshelf greenhouse outside to place the germinated ones in the sun during the day. Gets up to 90 degs in the sun! Planted them in shallow soil, bigger cells. I’ll add soil if they get too skinny scrawny. Damping off was a big problem last year. I’m using AgroThrive 3-3-5 on them. What are you using? I ordered some pepper seeds. My Dixondale Onion slips should ship mid-April. Got the Ringmaster, Redwing, Wala Wala combo again. Make sure you do a video on the planting.
Hi Rachel, I live in Wisconsin Zone 5 and planted Grandpa Ott morning glories 10 years ago and they are invasive, come back every year, everywhere lol. I'm curious which morning glory seeds do you use?
Hi. I recently stumbled across one of your old videos where y’all built the best chicken tractor, and I really liked that design and wondering if y’all had any type of plans designs or measurements that you would be willing to share, to help me out. Y’all really have some cool videos, keep up the good work
I got my tomato's and pepper plants started .I live in Bay county .mi I bought 2 genit peach trees bonfire and ponanza I spent almost 100 dollars with shipping to have them shipped . I was hoping they would give me better planting instructions . I want to plant them out side hear in Bay City but they didn't say what the low temps they will take does any one now if I can plant them out side hear in zone 5. What is sad and funny my local Walmarts are selling the bonfire tree for 35. Dollars and there twice the size I got .tanks please let me know if any one knows .richard
@1870s I've had my under grow lights and also bottom feeding weekly and mine are not that big. I have been harding them off and they are thriving outside in the cooler Temps.
I just got my onion slips(they came early actually)& we’ve had so much rain here in PA, our yard looked like a pond for days so we couldn’t get our raised beds ready. I’m still waiting on my tomato seeds, but my other seeds are started. We always plant marigolds in our garden beds. So last year I started marigolds I got in a seed package from Survival Seeds. However, I didn’t read the packet well bc they were GIANT marigolds. Holy cow, they looked crazy in my Greenstalk & garden.
so fun, thank you for taking us along! this week i was listening to an episode of a podcast floret farm was on, and she was talking about plant breeding for flowers, etc. seems very inspiring (and current)
I love nasturtiums and start them every year, I use my zester to nip the outer layer so they start faster and better. I also started carnations, shasta daisy, echinachia, calendula and marigolds. My onions came two days ago from dixondale and they were kinda yacky, not sure why but I got them laid out in a pan so they dry out a bit.
Having the Grands in the yard is so much fun. I took some extra garden plants over to their house this weekend and they helped plant their garden with brassicas, peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers. Mine are 10, 7 and almost 3.
Love watching your videos Rachel and appreciate all of the information that you and Todd share. I am just in awe of that beautiful ceramic chicken in the background by the door. Where did you get that? Have a wonderful day and good luck with your flowers and your garden this year. Love going along on your adventures. You provide a lot of joy to me. Also love the "whats for dinner" segments. God bless.
I’ve has such good success the past two years with my garden that I decided to to add annuals to the mix to help bring in pollinators as well as help deter pests. So I’ve started Nasturtiums, marigolds, cosmos and petunias. I just planted them day before yesterday and some of them have already sprouted already! I also watched a video about how great sunflowers are for the garden as trap plants, so I got obsessed with the idea of pink sunflowers and ordered, blue, pink and purple sunflowers from sellers on Etsy. I can’t wait to grow a sunflower garden outside my garden fence!
My tomatoes are up today- only one week. I’ve never had luck transplanting morning glories. They come up from seed every year here in western SD. Curious to see how your calendula does. I want them in my garden as well. Thanks for showing us your experimentation! They’ll do great- you have the knack. 😃
I am new to doing flowers from seeds too. I did last year here in zone 7 Tennessee, grow my marigolds with direct sow. I had no idea if they would grow, but to my surprise they grew perfectly and vigilant. I also saw a video I watch weekly from Hooked and Rooted in Michigan where she planted her Poppy seeds directly in the snow. She does that every year and they are beautiful. She generally takes her stratified seeds and directly puts them in the cold weather. Who knew ???? I will see if mine come up. I have been watching videos from others and have taken from them. I also love watching Laura from Garden Answers which is so good to watch for all kinds of growing and planting ideas. I also started recently watching Angela in Growing in The Garden, she has a wonderful garden and does a lot of videos I will be doing this year. She also does seed gathering and growing flowers. She reminds me of a gardening show from many years ago I use to watch. In Square foot gardening.She also uses only worm castings for her garden. I can't wait to see how all your ideas come to life in your garden. Please look at their channels and let me know how you like them, I know you will definitely like Angelas channel she is definitely an organic growing channel. God bless and see you in the next video. 🙏 ❤
You will do just fine. You should soak your morning glory seeds for 24 hours before planting. If you have any that float on the top of the water, those are not good viable seeds.
Sorry. Added miy bc two cents before I got to the point of the video where you said they are not invasive in your area..I’m in the Pacific Northwest and that plant is a doozy omg and if you have neighbours nearby they will also enjoy them lol they are prolific flowering plants and the bees love them but here you will never get rid of it ….,ever 😊🪴
I have never had any luck starting marigolds from seed in spite of the fact that literally everybody says they are the easiest seeds to start 🤷🏽♀️ But this year, I got a response from Kevin at Epic Gardening (and owner of Botanical Interests seeds) and he said to just scatter them on top of the soil and then sprinkle vermiculite over them. The vermiculite allows light through but keeps the soil from drying out too fast. Well … guess what??!!!!! I have marigold seedlings this year! 🎉🎉 Woohoo!!!
and this why u stopped a little the garden.. u needed challenge.. once u start cut flowers...its amazing. i grow about 100 kinds... and 1400 plants... in a small garden in montreal canada. and still have mostly vedgies and fruits.. but have 7 bouquets of flowers every 2 days for me or for gifts.. or sell!
I love your videos. I am laughing so hard with tears in my eyes. This has to be one of my favorite videos, Rachel. The look on your face ripping peppers off the bush while talking about how much fun it is gardening then throwing tomatoes. Your dog scratching the chair before settling. Todd and the toilets. 😂 This is the perfect example of my gardening days. 😂❤😂
For the nasturtium, I always take a finger nail file and file a little way down before I plant them. They take off like gang busters.
I started a lot more flowers from seed this year than ever before. Starting flowers feels like less pressure than food crops, like there's less to lose if they don't work. My veggies I have all counted out and depend on them, but flowers feel like a bonus. So if they work, great! If they don't, sow direct. Good luck with yours!
This is my first year growing flowers from seed. So this is my flower farm era as well. I’m excited to see your garden this year💚
I wanted to do flower farming a few years ago. I think you’ll be better at it than I was, it didn’t work out well for me. It seemed like a bigger learning curve coming from veggie gardening than I expected.
Your seedlings are doing amazing! You’re a natural gardener.
I have to chuckle over morning glories. As a kid I had to hoe them out of the garden. I had no idea people planted them on purpose as a flower, when I see them as a pesky weed.
Same here. They are so beautiful climbing, however never again. They took over everything.
I bet you’ll have good success. Happy planting.
Hi Rachel ! Quick helpful hint . I soak my nasturtium seeds not more than 24 hrs in warm water.
I use my zester to nip the seed, works great or is that grate. lol
This is my first year with flowers as well. Morning glories (in the south 😮), marigolds, zinnias, sweet peas and snapdragons. Fingers crossed. They are all planted out now, here in SC. Next year starting nasturtium and will start geraniums in the winter. They take forever.
Fingers crossed here too in NC
If you can find one of those little fans that clips onto a surface, put those in your greenhouses to help give it some more air flow. That will stop the green algae from forming on top of your soil. You might need to add some neem oil to a gallon watering can in case of those little gnats from getting into the soil and laying their eggs.
I soak hard seeds like sweet pea and morning glory to help them germinate. Watching you as the eclipse passes!
Beautiful seedlings. I'm hardening off all my starts this week, as we are about to last avg frost date of 14th. I too am doing the white marigold. They sprouted so fast and I started them a month ago. Already potted them up twice and they are outgrowing the quart containers. I got 100% germination on that same seed packet you are using...awesome stuff. And its my furst year of flowers from seed. So far so good. Only iffy ones are my purple petunias. Good germination, but not growing very much. We'll see.....
Once they start growing you will find a spot. Love your videos.
I was giggling. I am starting a lot of flowers this year for the first time and have no idea where I’m putting them outside. Lol. I use vermiculite to cover my seeds lightly and it works amazingly.
I also soak my morning glory seeds before planting. :)
So exciting!! You must have a gardeners green thumb as my grandma always said!!
I was so excited to find the sprayer that you suggested at Dollar General. It works wonderfully! Thanks for the recommendation. Last year I didn't have even 1 pepper come up. I'll buy them at the Mennonite greenhouse instead this year. I have broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage started and growing in the window sill. They are doing great. I started tomatoes a few days ago and am anxious to see them break ground. Thanks for all your motivation.
You will never have to buy seed again for the flash back calendula. They will reseed themselves easily😊
I so desire to be a flower gardener also. Big beautiful fresh flower arrangements in the fall Thats my goal for this year
We have always considered Morning Glory a weed!!! The red sounds Beautiful!!! The only color I have ever seen is white with light purple stripes in them!!! I'm sorry I have no hints for you!!! I have always planted flowers that I have bought grown!!! God Bless Us All!!!
Slightly different plant. Field bindweed is from the devil! Regular morning glory is beautiful.
Sounds like a beautiful design plan. Best of luck Rachel. The plants hardening off are huge. WOW. Nice. Our backyard garden space is limited so no cabbage for us. Looking forward.
I grow mine in grow bags or buckets.
You're frost date is about a week ahead of ours here in Eastern Ontario. I will be starting my flowers this coming week. And any veggies that didn't germinate or I missed. Your starts are doing so great. I have to fertilize mine.
soil here has gotten super expensive and i need above ground beds as im disabled so ive sold a ton of nasturtiums to offset the cost of soil
Fill the bottom with sticks, leave, etc it saves lot on soil
Great idea to recoup some of your cost by selling nasturtiums!
we do as weel as paper shred and kitchen scraps since its hard for me to compost since i cant stand a lot( i was in a semi truck accident t boned from the side) i also try and buy soil thats in a bag thats ripped or old and supplement with nori water and other things
We have morning glories growing up one end of our porch. Great for shade, but the seed goes everywhere. We planted the original seeds in 2015 & they come back every year in PA
Notch and soak your morning glory seeds ☺️
Everything looks so great!
I started cosmos, nasturtium, Hollywood's, bee balm, milkweed 4 days ago and half are up. I did kale and pak choi at the same time, those are up too. My flat of basil is just sprouting. This week I will be planting tomatoes.
Morning Glories are beautiful AND a nightmare!..I'm in zone 4B and they are still sprouting after 4 years of not planting. Never again.
I repeat what others are saying. Nasturtium needs to be filed a little to break through the hard shell. I have fantastic germination on them since learning this!
FYI morning glories are poisinis to chickens
I’m a weirdo but sometimes I give names for some plants and I call this one “the little asshole” 😊
My mom got a wild flower pack of seeds and told me she separated them all and then sprouted them in a baggies in the window so she's not staring at the dirt waiting to see if anything germinates😂
I got my onion transplants from Dixondale farms and some others from the store. I planted 136 onions yesterday...my first thing planted for my 2024 garden!! I really wish I did better with growing from seeds, but they always get too leggy. I will keep trying though.
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Thanks for the video tour of your seedlings. I can compare mine to yours. I just have 40% germination with my tomatoes so far. - Just placed by a window, inside. Used my bookshelf greenhouse outside to place the germinated ones in the sun during the day. Gets up to 90 degs in the sun! Planted them in shallow soil, bigger cells. I’ll add soil if they get too skinny scrawny. Damping off was a big problem last year.
I’m using AgroThrive 3-3-5 on them. What are you using?
I ordered some pepper seeds. My Dixondale Onion slips should ship mid-April. Got the Ringmaster, Redwing, Wala Wala combo again. Make sure you do a video on the planting.
I always soak my nasturtiium seeds for 24 hours prior to planting.
Hi Rachel, I live in Wisconsin Zone 5 and planted Grandpa Ott morning glories 10 years ago and they are invasive, come back every year, everywhere lol. I'm curious which morning glory seeds do you use?
Absolutely... but oh so beautiful... worth the weeding for me... just pull out what I don't want
I made the mistake of fertilizing my nasturtium starts last year and boy oh boy did the foliage take off but they DID NOT FLOWER!!
Hi. I recently stumbled across one of your old videos where y’all built the best chicken tractor, and I really liked that design and wondering if y’all had any type of plans designs or measurements that you would be willing to share, to help me out.
Y’all really have some cool videos, keep up the good work
No plans for it, but if I remember right there was a 3 part video series on it. I don't build anything from plans, I just build as I go.
@@1870s thanks!!😁😁
Nice Rachel! Everything looks awesome!!! So relaxing to watch!!
Got me on ‘pull out the videotape’. Can relate to that as well as the gardening!
I don't know much about growing flowers I just heard some of them have to go in the fridge for a while
I got my tomato's and pepper plants started .I live in Bay county .mi I bought 2 genit peach trees bonfire and ponanza I spent almost 100 dollars with shipping to have them shipped . I was hoping they would give me better planting instructions . I want to plant them out side hear in Bay City but they didn't say what the low temps they will take does any one now if I can plant them out side hear in zone 5. What is sad and funny my local Walmarts are selling the bonfire tree for 35. Dollars and there twice the size I got .tanks please let me know if any one knows .richard
How did you get your broccoli and cabbages so big indoors?
They just grew. Keep them under grow light, and bottom feed once a week.
@1870s I've had my under grow lights and also bottom feeding weekly and mine are not that big. I have been harding them off and they are thriving outside in the cooler Temps.
I've always soaked my morning glories overnight. Not sure that's proper its just how my daddy taught me.
Hello, I watched your video and you said you needed to put cinnamon on your plants. What does the cinnamon do?
It helps prevent fungus on top of the soil.
Wait … sprinkle cinnamon on seedlings?!?!?
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I just got my onion slips(they came early actually)& we’ve had so much rain here in PA, our yard looked like a pond for days so we couldn’t get our raised beds ready. I’m still waiting on my tomato seeds, but my other seeds are started. We always plant marigolds in our garden beds. So last year I started marigolds I got in a seed package from Survival Seeds. However, I didn’t read the packet well bc they were GIANT marigolds. Holy cow, they looked crazy in my Greenstalk & garden.
Mine were giant too. Thanks for the explanation. 😂
@@beautyoflife4046 Yes, it wasn’t a plant, it was a tree!😂
so fun, thank you for taking us along! this week i was listening to an episode of a podcast floret farm was on, and she was talking about plant breeding for flowers, etc. seems very inspiring (and current)
I love the floret videos too
I love nasturtiums and start them every year, I use my zester to nip the outer layer so they start faster and better. I also started carnations, shasta daisy, echinachia, calendula and marigolds. My onions came two days ago from dixondale and they were kinda yacky, not sure why but I got them laid out in a pan so they dry out a bit.
I really want to start some flowers. Here in Oklahoma they just don’t last to long seems it get hot to fast here
Having the Grands in the yard is so much fun. I took some extra garden plants over to their house this weekend and they helped plant their garden with brassicas, peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers. Mine are 10, 7 and almost 3.
Love watching your videos Rachel and appreciate all of the information that you and Todd share. I am just in awe of that beautiful ceramic chicken in the background by the door. Where did you get that? Have a wonderful day and good luck with your flowers and your garden this year. Love going along on your adventures. You provide a lot of joy to me. Also love the "whats for dinner" segments. God bless.
Thanks for another wonderful video! It will be so exciting to see your vegetable 🍅🫑🥕 and flower🌷🌻🥀 gardens. Have a great week!!
So excited for you to be gardening again and now flowers too!!! How cool! Blessings on your day Kiddos!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿
Morning glory noooooooooooooooo
I’ve has such good success the past two years with my garden that I decided to to add annuals to the mix to help bring in pollinators as well as help deter pests. So I’ve started Nasturtiums, marigolds, cosmos and petunias. I just planted them day before yesterday and some of them have already sprouted already! I also watched a video about how great sunflowers are for the garden as trap plants, so I got obsessed with the idea of pink sunflowers and ordered, blue, pink and purple sunflowers from sellers on Etsy. I can’t wait to grow a sunflower garden outside my garden fence!
My tomatoes are up today- only one week. I’ve never had luck transplanting morning glories. They come up from seed every year here in western SD. Curious to see how your calendula does. I want them in my garden as well. Thanks for showing us your experimentation! They’ll do great- you have the knack. 😃
I am new to doing flowers from seeds too.
I did last year here in zone 7 Tennessee, grow my marigolds with direct sow. I had no idea if they would grow, but to my surprise they grew perfectly and vigilant.
I also saw a video I watch weekly from Hooked and Rooted in Michigan where she planted her Poppy seeds directly in the snow.
She does that every year and they are beautiful. She generally takes her stratified seeds and directly puts them in the cold weather. Who knew ???? I will see if mine come up.
I have been watching videos from others and have taken from them.
I also love watching Laura from Garden Answers which is so good to watch for all kinds of growing and planting ideas. I also started recently watching Angela in Growing in The Garden, she has a wonderful garden and does a lot of videos I will be doing this year. She also does seed gathering and growing flowers.
She reminds me of a gardening show from many years ago I use to watch. In Square foot gardening.She also uses only worm castings for her garden.
I can't wait to see how all your ideas come to life in your garden.
Please look at their channels and let me know how you like them, I know you will definitely like Angelas channel she is definitely an organic growing channel.
God bless and see you in the next video. 🙏 ❤
You will do just fine. You should soak your morning glory seeds for 24 hours before planting. If you have any that float on the top of the water, those are not good viable seeds.
Marigolds are such a weird little seed. I always say that look like little fossils.
All your starters look fantastic!
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Sorry. Added miy bc two cents before I got to the point of the video where you said they are not invasive in your area..I’m in the Pacific Northwest and that plant is a doozy omg and if you have neighbours nearby they will also enjoy them lol they are prolific flowering plants and the bees love them but here you will never get rid of it ….,ever 😊🪴