Prep Grow Your Own Plants

Growing Your Own Plants From Seed - 3X diameter Annuals – Most Vegetables Perennials – Trees, Berries From Tubers Horseradish, Jerusalem Artichoke, Sweet Potato From Cuttings/Grafts Sweet Potatoes, Grapes, Fruit & Nut Trees From Roots Rhubarb, Raspberries, Strawberries Bulbs

Planting Types Seeds Annuals Plant Every Year Die at end of year Perennials Keep Growing each year Do not need replanted Usually need stratified to grow Tubers Plant from the roots each year Dig up the roots as the crop May be a perennial or Annual May grow slips

Planting Types Cuttings Cuttings from live plant e. g. sweet potato Cuttings can be rooted or grafted May be annual or perennial Bulbs Mostly flowers Roots May be split from roots Perennial or annual Perennial that may be treated like annual May also be grown from seeds Celery Roots

Get a Greenhouse

Or Get a Cold Frame

Or Grow Them Indoors

Indoors on the Cheap

Buy your Trays and pots

Or Make Do

Planting

Planter

Planting Perennials

Planting peat pots

Planting Strawberries

Planting Tomatoes

Sweet Potato

Rooting Plants Use a Rooting Hormone Rooting methods Perlite Vermiculite water

Potting Soil Should be Sterilized/Pasteurized Moisten soil until it holds its shape when you squeeze a ball of it. Place in metal pan and cover with metal lid or foil Heat in oven set at 350°F Heat until temperature reaches 180°F for at least 30 minutes Do not heat above 195°F (Use a meat thermometer to check)

Potting Soil Recipes Seedling Soil Mix 5 parts finely screened compost 4 parts garden soil 1-2 parts coarse sand 1-2 parts sphagnum peat moss 2 T. lime for each shovel of peat moss 2 tbsp fertilizer Soil-less Container Mix 1/2 cubic yard sphagnum peat moss 1/2 cubic yard vermiculite 10 pounds bone meal 5 pounds limestone 5 pounds blood meal

Potting Soil Recipes General Potting Soil Mix 6 gallons sphagnum peat moss 1/4 cup limestone 4¼ gallons vermiculite or perlite 4¼ gallons compost Soil-based Container Mix 1 part screened compost 1 part garden soil 1 part coarse sand or a mix of vermiculite and perlite

Potting Soil Recipes Potted Perennial and Shrub Mix 1 part compost 1 part coarse sand 1 part sphagnum peat moss 1 part composted pine bark 2 T. lime for each shovel of peat moss Peat-Soil Combination Mix 2 parts vermiculite 3 parts sphagnum peat moss 2 parts perlite 2 parts dehydrated manure 3 parts garden soil 1/2 part bone meal

Potting Soil Recipes Basic mix 2 pt perlite 3 pt peat moss 1 tblsp lime 2 tblsp fertilizer

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