I tried something new, it’s called soil blocking. It’s a way to germinate seeds without using the plastic seed trays. I have never been very good at germination. I would say I got lucky with a lot of what I did start! I have lost so many seeds to not getting the right conditions for massive seed starting results. While I have been learning, someone I came across is a flower farmer named Lisa Mason Ziegler. She runs the website The Gardener’s Workshop, where she teaches anything and everything flower farming. I signed up for a class on soil blocking and away I went. I
ordered the correct tools you need to make the blocks and the special soil. Once I had all the equipment in hand I felt like quite the scientist, or farmer I guess! Making the soil the right level of wetness is tricky at first but now that I have made it a few times I think I have the right consistency down. Making the blocks is easy to do and kind of fun. I have two sizes that I can make, 3/4″ or 2″. I like using the smallest size block, I can fit 20 seeds into one grid and 60 seeds on one tray. That is a lot of flowers 🙂 I started 60 Daisy seeds, 10 seeds each of 6 different Daisy varieties. Then a few days later I started 8 Sunflower seeds. These seeds are much larger so they needed to be started in the 2″ blocks. Just a week later and they are so tall! I am hooked! What else can I start?
