Natural Seedling Germination Containers - Part 1

g'day welcome to our cultivate my name is Steve and today we're going to look at a couple of alternative types of containers that you can use to germinate new seedlings or starters when you buy commercially raised seedlings or starters you will usually find that they are provided in these types of containers now the problem with these containers is of course that they are plastic and they're not really recyclable it is possible to repurpose them or reuse them to raise more seedlings but eventually they really outlive their use by date so I'm going to talk about a couple of alternatives to these although I do encourage you if you do have these to use them again and again and again but some alternatives to them include things like old egg cartons or even the old eggshells themselves after you've finished with them having had your fried eggs or poached eggs in the morning so what you really need to do is to treat this eggshell like a little container for your seedling starter so I'm going to simply place some seedling starter mix into each of these and now it's just a simple matter off sewing our seed within each of these little containers just top each of those up with a little bit more seedling starter mix follow that with a very light water place them in a suitable location and just let them go when these seeds have germinated and they have grown to the point where I can actually transplant them into the ground it is just simply a matter of placing the entire egg shell into the ground with the seedling in it and that in itself will minimize transplant shock now only one word of caution when it comes to this and that is make sure that your egg shells have been well dried and aged even because egg shells can be a place for the transmission of the Salmonella bacteria so make sure that the eggshells are dry and well aged and everything will be fine now if you don't want to use the eggshells themselves but I would encourage you to I do you can't just simply use all their cartons themselves it's just again a simple matter of add your seedling starter mix so the seeds light water allow them to germinate and then if you wish you can actually cut these up into the individual sections and you can place them directly into the ground and that in itself will minimize transplant shock now hope you've enjoyed this video can I ask you please to go down to the thumbs up and give us a thumbs up subscribe to this channel and go to our website I cultivate dotnet and become a member of the community thanks for watching [Music]