This is the time when you sit in the rocking chair watching your garden spring up with a cool ice tea, playing games on your phone, looking at the caesar casino bonus codes relaxing, saving money, waiting for the next step in your gardening adventure.
My husband had one of his many genius moments and started bringing home the used coffee pods from work.
I was puzzled at first but he knows I add coffee to my soil and compost bin.
His brilliant idea was to open up the pods, scoop out what’s left in them, and add that to the compost bin. Meanwhile, we fill the pod with good soil, using it to start my seeds.
It was brilliant!!
They are the perfect sized containers for my little seeds to sprout.
The pods also have the added benefit of being made of plastic that will keep the seeds humid and a hole in the bottom from use that will act as drainage so that the seeds don’t sit in water and mold.
I take a handful of these and place them in a plastic tray with a small amount of water in the bottom and put all of it on a window sill with moderate to limited amounts of sun.
If the coffee pods are not available to you there are several other options on the cheap we all have in our house.
My second choice for starting seeds in is the cardboard crate that our eggs come in from the store.
When opened the crate has perfectly sized sections for a small amount of soil and the seed.
When placed in a tray of water the crate will also wick the water up into the pod to water your seed.
An added benefit of starting seeds in egg crates is that you can cut apart each section and plant the section directly in the ground because the cardboard egg crates are biodegradable.
My 3rd option is the plastic clamshell that berries come in when we purchase them at the store.
I also like to use the clamshell berry containers because I can shut the lid and allot humidity to build up in the container and seeds love that when sprouting.
The only downside I have to these containers is that with no separation for the seeds there is no barrier to keep the roots from tangling and making it difficult when trying to extract the plant for moving it to a larger parcel of soil outside or in a bigger pot.
They are still a great budget saver when planting if you have no other option.
Now that your seeds are started its time to wait for them to sprout.
