60 Seconds or Sow: How to Perfectly Prepare Your Seed Cells for Germination

60 Seconds or Sow: How to Perfectly Prepare 

Your Seed Cells for Germination

In about 60 seconds I show you how to prepare and pack your seed cells perfectly to help your vegetable or flower seeds germinate and get off to a great start.

It is really important to pre-moisten your starting mix and to press the starting mix into the planting cells. Doing this will really improve seed germination.

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60 Seconds or Sow: Preventing Seedling 'Damping Off' Disease Using Cinnamon

60 Seconds or Sow: Preventing Seedling 

'Damping Off' Disease Using Cinnamon

This is nearly a 60 second garden video to show you how to use cinnamon and its anti-fungal properties to prevent or stop 'Damping Off' diseases on your seedlings.

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60 Seconds or Sow: Swiss Chard - A 3 Season Vegetable

60 Seconds or Sow: Swiss Chard - A 3 Season Vegetable

In 60 second or sow, I introduce you to a cool weather vegetable that grows through all three seasons. If you haven't grown Swiss Chard, check out this video. Swiss chard can be harvested spring, summer and fall. It will grow until a few hard frosts. The stalks can be sauteed and the leaves can be used like spinach.

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How to Protect Your Vegetables from Frost with Cups, Trash Bags and Wet Towels

How to Protect Your Vegetables from Frost
with Cups, Trash Bags and Wet Towels 

This is quick video to show you how you can create frost protection for you vegetable plants out of cups, trash bags and a wet towels. It is easy to do. Cheap, and it can be done quickly. It really works!

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1 of 2 How to Plant Peas in 5 Gallon Containers: Spring and Fall

1 of 2 How to Plant Peas in 5 Gallon Containers: Spring and Fall 

This video is not 60 Seconds or Sow but it quickly shows you how to plant peas in a 5 gallon container. They are great container crops. Plant them both in your garden beds and some in containers. You can never have enough peas!

You can plant peas twice yearly in the Spring and Fall. Container planting is simple, cheap and a very effective way to grow peas. Please check out my other videos to see how the peas mature.

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How to Plant Beets and Spinach in Cell Flats for Transplants

How to Plant Beets and Spinach in Cell Flats for Transplants

This is not one of the 60 Second or Sow videos but it quickly shows you a way to plant beets and spinach in cell flats. Once they mature you will be able to put them in your garden beds. It is a great way to save time in the garden.

A method of planting beets and spinach in cell flats. This is one way to grow beets and spinach transplants outdoors for your garden. Get a jump on the season and let them mature in cell flats while other crops are in the ground. This is a great way to maximize garden space. Grow transplants!

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60 Seconds or Sow: Harvesting Red Russian Kale Flowers as a Biennial

60 Seconds or Sow: 

Harvesting Red Russian Kale Flowers as a Biennial

Kale is, in my area zone 7, a biennial. It will over-winter and come back with new leaves as early as February. Not only do the leaves taste great and have a cold weather sweetness to them... the plant will  flower. The flower heads have a great flavor and if you let the blossom, you might catch them with a honey sweetness to them from the pollen. After they flower, remove them and replace them with new plants for the warms season and following spring. Enjoy!

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