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Introducing Episode 1 of Gardening 101: Indoor Vegetable Seed Starting Basics: Seeds, Starting Supplies & Lighting

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Subscribe to my YouTube Channel The Rusted Garden Over 800 Garden Videos Designed to Quickly Present Information! Introducing Episode 1 of Gardening 101: Indoor Vegetable Seed Starting Basics: Seeds, Starting Supplies & Lighting I will be doing a long format video series with a digital table of contents so you can jump to the most relevant parts of the video. Gardening 101 will take you through my entire gardening season from beginning to end. On the way I will explain and show just about everything I am doing. It is a great way to learn and refresh your vegetable gardening skills. The first episode of Gardening 101 is all about indoor seed starting. I cover the seed types, starting supplies and really explain the kind of lighting you need. This episode will get you started in the really fun and relaxing world of starting seeds indoors. The video is best watched through my 2nd YT Channel My First Vegetable Garden as the video links will be active. Here is what you will find in the
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Gardeners Wanted for the 2018 All-America Selections Growing Group! - A Seed Give-Away

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Subscribe to my YouTube Channel The Rusted Garden Over 800 Garden Videos Designed to Quickly Present Information! Gardeners Wanted for the 2018 All-America Selections Growing Group! ..........................................A Seed Give-Away.......................................... We are randomly selecting 50 ' Flower and Vegetable Winners ' FB group members to receive 3-5 free seed packs of different AAS Winning varieties and starting our new Growing Group. We want to share our passion with your passion for growing a garden. We'd love for you to join our new FB group and share your gardens with us! Every 3-4 months we are going to have seed give-aways and growing groups. Here is how you enter... our first give-away and planting group! All-America Selections is an 85-year-old non-profit, plant trialing organization that tests new vegetable, fruit, ornamental and flower varieties for garden performance. Only the top performers are deemed AAS Winners. We want to spread the
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How to Find & Use Inexpensive LED Grow Light Tubes: Replace Fluorescent Bulbs & Reuse Fixtures

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Subscribe to my YouTube Channel The Rusted Garden Over 800 Garden Videos Designed to Quickly Present Information! How to Find Use Inexpensive LED Grow Light Tubes: Replace Fluorescent Bulbs Reuse Fixtures The price of LED bulbs have dropped significantly. I show you how to find LED replacements for your 4 foot fluorescent tubes. I go over where to find them, costs, how to use them and the ratings that make effective grow lights. I also show you two inexpensive out of the box LED lights you can use immediately. Here is the Lights of America LED 4500 Lumens, 5000K 4 foot Shop Light as seen in video http://amzn.to/2DCf8zi Here is the Lithonia Lighting LED 3000 Lumens, 4000K 3 foot Shop light as seen in the video http://amzn.to/2DZWkIl Amazon price will vary as I quoted Walmart in store price. The out of the box set-ups only require you to hang them in the location that will host your seed starts. Just hang and turn them on. LED lights are inexpensive to run and you'll find starting
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A Complete Guide for Growing Tomatoes & Peppers - Seed to Harvest: Every Step!/Table of Contents

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Subscribe to my YouTube Channel The Rusted Garden Over 800 Garden Videos Designed to Quickly Present Information! A Complete Guide for Growing Tomatoes & Peppers Seed to Harvest: Every Step!/Table of Contents This is probably the most complete guide on YT for starting tomatoes and peppers indoors, through harvesting them and all the steps in between. Every step can be found in the digital table of contents. Just click the section you want. I cover all aspects of seed starting, all aspects of taking care of transplants, all aspects of planting and tending, how to mange pests & diseases, how to save seeds and I show you an entire year's growth of these plants. This was a 9 part series from 2106. Best viewed on my YT channel The Rusted Garden to get the working digital links. Enjoy. Best viewed on my YT channel The Rusted Garden to get the working digital links. Enjoy. 0:00 Introduction of Video Contents Section One: Growing Tomatoes & Peppers: When to Seed Start, Start
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How to Make Inexpensive Sterile Starting & Potting Mix: Peat, Vermiculite & Perlite - No Fungus Gnats

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Subscribe to my YouTube Channel The Rusted Garden Over 800 Garden Videos Designed to Quickly Present Information! How to Make Inexpensive Sterile Starting & Potting Mix: Peat, Vermiculite & Perlite - No Fungus Gnats If you don't use a lot of seed starting mix and you only pot up a few plants to grow as your vegetable transplants, you are better off buying prepackaged mixes. However, you need to sterilize it to decrease your chances of hatching fungus gnat eggs. If you use a lot of starting mix and use potting mix to grow your seeds starts to a larger size, making it yourself will save you a lot of money. It is very simple and you can adapt the mixes to your personal needs. A 2.2 cubic foot compressed bag of peat moss will cost you between $10 and $15. A 2 cubic foot bag of fine vermiculite will cost between $20 and $30. These are the two key ingredients for making starting mix. You will be able to make 60 - 90 quarts of mixes. I recommend not using perlite in the starting
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My Seed and Garden Shop: My First Shirt - A Garden Wants to Give!

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Subscribe to my YouTube Channel The Rusted Garden Over 800 Garden Videos Designed to Quickly Present Information! My Seed and Garden Shop: My First Shirt - A Garden Wants to Give! Some much can be found in the vegetable garden. I have written a blog post before about memories of my grandfather and how he taught me to grow a garden. I'll be doing a long format video series this year called Mental Health, Wellness and The Vegetable Garden which is really about how gardening can help you have a better quality of life. These are some ways a garden gives back to us. Last year I launched my Seed and Garden Shop. It is packed with all the things I use in my videos. This year I just added my first shirt with the phrase ' A Garden Wants to Give' . I chose the word Give over Grow for several reasons. Vegetables want to grow but a garden wants to give. It gives back in so many ways. It gave me a chance to connect with people (fellow gardeners) from all over the world. It gives me pea
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