Innovative Seed Planter for Starting Seeds

Organica teaching farm here in Mexico. And one of the things that we learned about were these little nifty things, where you put your potting soil together. You make like a big cake of potting soil, huh? And then you set this down, and you press down, and it makes these soil blocks. So the advantage of these soil blocks is, first of all, there’s no plastic. Second of all, when you, typically the roots, when you transplant will be healthier if they’re undisturbed. So this goes right into your larger receptacle, right into the bed.

And so we really like that. And these are, I think they cost, here in Mexico, they cost about $125, but we’ve had this one for seven years, and I’m sure it will be here where I’m going. So the process is to make the cake of soil, make your little cubes, and then plant your seeds in each of those cubes, and then those seeds will sprout, and then become little sprouts that you then, instead of having a pot, you just take the little cube with the sprout and transplant it. Yeah, if you handle these, if you handle these carefully, they will stay intact.

And this is one of the things we’re doing. And we have a really good rate of survival of the little plantulas or the little seedlings. And quite a bit of success. Once we put them out into the main beds here, they’re pretty happy. So we’re happy that we don’t have a lot of plastic to get rid of. Well, this is Marjorie Wildcraft with the Grow Network and Regeneration International. You can grow your own food, and you don’t need a lot of plastic pots to do it. I’ll catch you on the next segment.