Germinating seeds indoors

Here is a fun and easy way to germinate seeds indoors. I used a carboard egg carton, filled it with home made soil-less soil, (perlite, peat moss, vermiculite mixed in equal parts), add a stick for a lable as well as a make shift tent pole of sorts and covered it with plastic wrap. The plastic wrap holds in the moisture and in about 4 days you will see the plants starting to emerge!

My soil less potting and seed starting mix recipe - Plants love it!

Here is how I made my own soil less mix recipe. It's very easy to make and it seems that seeds love to germinate in this mix. It is said you should avoid starting seeds, (or certain seeds anyway), in native dirt/soil because of bacteria etc that can kill the seed - damping off it's called.

You only need a few things to get started:

1.) (4) 5 gallon buckets with lids

2.) Bag of vermiculite

3.) Bag of perlite

4.) Bag of sphagnum moss

5.) 1/2 to 2 pounds worm castings (optional)

Pour each ingredient into it's own 5 gallon bucket.

Use a measuring cup to take equal  parts of each product and pour into the last bucket. (If you choose to add the worm castings do not need a bucketand shoud be stored somewhere else.) This is your completed soil-less mix for starting seeds or using as house plant medium. You can even use this as hydroponic medium if you has a netting to hold it together.

2.5 pounds of worm castings total after 3 months

Here is a photo while we were harvesting our worm castings. We got a total of 2.5 pounds of worm castings and have since started to make worm tea, used the worm castings in our indoor garden and have mixed the worm castings into a home made soil mix consisting of perlite, vermiculite, peat moss and worm castings.