Prep - 255Grow 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

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 RecipesSeedling 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. 12-12-12 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 RecipesPotted 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 12-12-12 fertilizer

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