Making My Garden A Beautiful Place
Not EVERYTHING in my garden is a vegetable or herb! I also plant flowers! I plant for both pollinators, and for making my world a little nicer to see. Today, I started some Marigolds (Pretty, AND pollinators like Bees, Butterflys, etc, love 'em!). Also, I planted two kinds of Zinnia, and some Bachelor Buttons (My wife LOVES them!) Over the next four weeks, I have many more flowers to start indoors from seed.
A BIG part is making sure my seed starter is finely sifted. The finer the seed, the finer the seed starting soil I need to use. So, first thing I do, is to SIFT the seed starter!
(Image is a screen shot of my order for when I bought the classifier)
These SIFTERS are called CLASSIFIERS. The one above, is called 1/4inch Classifier. These come from the Gem and Gold digging community. The classifiers are one inch (sorts out larger stones), 1/2 inch stones, 1/4 inch (what I use) the quarter inch will take my soil and sift out all the bigger bits of stick, wood, etc, that are NOT broken down. That leaves nothing but a fine planting seed starter "soil."
Check out the video, and see how I grow my Flowers from SEED! Let me know, below, are you planting your own flowers, too? My gardens are in Zone 7a/7b New England.
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And that makes me smile... better for the planet, better for my own family.
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