Propagation
Germination, seed depth, punnets, heat mats and hardening off: getting seed from the packet to a strong seedling.
Articles tagged Seed Starting. All propagation
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- Planting Out Seedlings: How to Transplant Without the SetbackThe right size, the right day, the right depth. How to move seedlings from punnet to bed without transplant shock, and what to do in the ...Knowledge Base
- How to Protect and Care for Young SeedlingsWhat a seedling needs Seedlings are the most fragile stage in the life of a plant, and a few days of the wrong conditions can undo weeks ...Beginner Gardening
- Punnets, cell trays, paper pots or soil blocks: what to raise seedlings inOpen punnets, cell trays, peat and paper pots, toilet roll tubes and soil blocks compared: what each does to the roots, what the trials f...Propagation
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- Smoke water and smoke treatment: waking Australian native seedMany Australian native seeds wait for a bushfire, and the cue is smoke. The Kings Park science behind karrikinolide, which species respon...Native Plants
- Soaking, Scarification and Cold Stratification: Which Seeds Need Help, and Which Do NotMost seed needs nothing. For the few that do, here is how to soak big seeds, scarify hard ones, chill cold-climate ones and smoke Austral...Knowledge Base
- How to Sow Tiny Seeds Without Losing Them (Including the Sand Trick)Poppy seed runs to ten thousand a gram. How to bulk tiny seed with sand, sow it on the surface, keep it damp, and thin it, so the smalles...Knowledge Base
- Sow to the Seed, Not to the spade: How Deep Seeds Really Want To GoMost spring seeds that never come up were buried too deep. The twice-the-width rule, which seeds want light, and how to keep a shallow so...Seed Starting