Grow Your Own Food/ Planting Seeds/ Solo Cup Tomatoes & Peppers
Vložit
- čas přidán 6. 04. 2022
- Planting seeds indoors is so easy, costs less, provides food security, and tastes so much better than store bought vegetables. How to plant tomato seeds and pepper seeds in solo cups. Get prepared and learn to grow your own food. Food shortages may come to pass, so we need to have food in our homes.
You will need:
- 2 solo cups
- seed starting mix
- tomato and pepper seeds
- nail and matches for warming the nail
This method has really helped all my seedlings this year! Thank you!
Oh good! I am starting all of my seedlings this weekend. Mine may be a little late of a start this year since I started them a few weeks earlier last year. Oh well, better now than not at all. Good luck on your garden this year!
@@sandysteinbrook thank you! Same to yours! ❤️
Awesome! Nice to see new ideas..I'll be double cupping some for sure! Thanks Sandy👍🥰
It's so easy and works so well!
Thank you Sandy, that was easy and helpful. God Bless you and your family
Thank you!
I’m literally poking the holes in my solo cups as I type this!! 🌱
I love this comment!! :)
Thank you
Great video, Sandy! This is the easiest method to get those seeds started! 😃
Hi, Millie!
Gosh what an excellent idea, Sandy! Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you, Jen!!
I've planted in solo cups for years, but I've never tried the double cup method. I'm in zone 6 so this will start happening for me after Easter. Thank you for the great tips.
Thank you for watching!
Love it! Great method for seed starting! 💗🌱
So easy and inexpensive. Plus they can be reused year after year.
I’m growing tomatoes when I lived in Pennsylvania. Now I’m living in Fort Myers zone nine so I have some learning to do. Thanks for sharing.
You'll have a longer grown season for sure! Its almost time in Ohio to start sowing some seeds.
Thanks. Very helpful.
Good idea! Thanks Sandy!
Hey, Jennifer! You're welcome.
I'm already harvesting here! Lettuce, spinach and green beans very very soon!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I’m a newbie and this video is super helpful 🙌🏽👍🏽
I am glad it was helpful! It is definitely a learning curve as you go. But this really does work. Something else I noted from last year when I planted our garden...the tomato plants that I grew from seed looked smaller that any the store, so I bought a few at the store also. I won't do that again. After planting the ones I grew and adding some fertilizer, within a week they had reached to where the store bought ones were!
Sandy! Great video. I am not a gardener, but have been thinking about trying to grow something. I might give it a shot .............. 😎👍👍
I'm not a true gardener either. I have never tried growing seeds, but it is turning out to not be hard at all. Try it, Joseph!
Sweet! I'm a beginner! Thanks alot😊
Its that time of year for us to get started again so we can plant our gardens! I was a beginner last year and feel like I have a better understand this year. Good luck! You can do it!
Love your video thank you
You're welcome! It is that time of year again that we need to plant our seeds to get them sprouting.
Now meet the professional garden lady teaching and showing people how they can start a garden of course wonderful idea and Well Done and thank you for sharing the very interesting video @ Sandy Steinbrook 👍👍😃😃🌹🌹♥️♥️
Hi, Annie! Definitely not a professional. Lol! But, starting to learn a lot more and sharing what I learn. Thank you!
@@sandysteinbrook thank you for the beautiful red heart and the beautiful message and comment too yes you are right we all do have to learn before knowing what to do @ Sandy Steinbrook😀😀👍👍🌹🌹♥️♥️
Hi Sandy thank you so much for the beautiful red heart and thank you so much for enjoying my messages and comments @ Sandy Steinbrook 👍👍😀😀🌹🌹♥️♥️
Thank you 🙏🏾 ☺️
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤
You're welcome. I started my seeds this same way again this year and planted my garden with the starts. It was a learning curve the first year and so much easier the second year. This totally works!
Thank you for sharing
You’re welcome. 😊
Great video!!!!!
Thank you!
Thanks for the video
You're welcome!
I have been using this method for a few years and is great, just make sure that you really have the cup with the holes inside the one with no holes. Right Sandy? I did catch that, I even went back in the video to confirm what I saw 😂. Thanks for sharing.
Lol. Yes!!
Great idea 😃👌🏾 Imma do it! My problem is I forget to label😁
This is the perfect time to get started so we have our plants ready by planting season. I have learned that zucchini and cucumbers grow from seed rather quickly so I start them later now.
This missed the most important bit - having a wicking cord from the top cup into the water below. Means it doesn’t always need to be sitting in water. Lots of videos on the double cup method cover this.
That is an interesting concept. This has worked well for me for several years, but will look into a wicking chord.
I started my tomato and pepper seeds in the solo cups under lights with baggies a little bit has popped through and I’m wondering when do I take the baggies off of the cups?
I leave the plastic top on my plants until they have come up to the top and dont have room to keep growing.
good subject matter and content, the only thing i'd do different is make bigger holes.
Ok didn't know that about making tomato 🍅 stem strong... interesting.
It works. I didn't know it either until I saw it on another channel and wanted to share the important info. It takes time to start seeds, so it is best to do it right so they are strong plants.
how long can the seedlings stay in the cups after they have sprouted out?
Brand new gardener here how will I know when to water my little tomato and pepper cups that I have a baggie over under lights? Is it every day?
No, I did not need to water them everyday in these bigger solo cups. Probably because there is more soil so they don't dry out as quickly. But when I used the smaller containers, they dried out very quickly and needed water almost daily. I would stick your finger down one inch into the soil and if it is dry, then water.
Very helpful I do have a grow light because I don’t have enough south facing sun and I live in a camper so space is limited. However the instructions to the grow light or not specific on how far to hang that light so if you’re telling people about how you can use a grow light could you go into more detail about how far to hang this as soon as the sproutsPop-up
I have mine 4-5 inches above the plants. As the sprout and grow I will continue to move the grow lights up.
After the tomatoes sprout and you start to add more soil, are you adding potting soil now or still using seed starter mix. I thought the starter mix is only to get them to about 14 days then put them in potting soul. Just wondering your thoughts.
Either. The potting soil is what is really needed but...if you have plenty of seed starter mix left, I use it. I just figure that the added nutrients in that starter mix will only help the tomatoes to continue to grow until I can plant them.
you put the rocks in the cup with the holes lol
I know! LOL! I did it backwards in the video.
Ugh I feel like every video I’m watching is skipping out the step of after you cover the soil up do you let it sit in a dark place? Or does it stay u fed lights? I’m new to gardening
It has to be by the light. I actually have grow lights on mine. I bought them on Amazon last year. A rather cheap investment for years to come. From everything I have learned from my first year of gardening last year...buy grow lights. They helped Tremendously!!
I also sit my seedlings by a window. but because of my window placement, the plants could not get enough light to grow. The tomatoes were growing very leggy, which means they were not strong.
By putting a light over top of them, they grow quicker. As they grow, I add more soil to the cups to make the stems strong as they grow. . I have read where even a lamp with a strong bulb is a better artificial light than just a window. I still prefer a grow light.
👍✅
Thank you for watching!
When do I water again? When do I move over to a pot? I have leaves now.
Use the round bottom red solo cups for the top soil cup and then use the square bottom red solo cups for the bottom cup. When you insert the top red round solo cup into the bottom square cup it automatically gives you about a 1/2” space without using marble’s or stones.😎
Great tip! Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you so much as a beginner this gave me so much confidence 🫶🏾
It has definitely been a learning experience. Starting seeds in cups totally works. I did have to buy some grow lights off Amazon. They are inexpensive and now I can use them year after year. I highly suggest that you do that. I makes a huge difference unless you have a huge amount of sunshine in a place you can set the seeds.
So when do you put them in the beds?
It depends on what region of the country you live in. So look up your planting seasons where you live. But mine can go in the ground safely after Mother's Day.
So you don't need to have seedlings in light or under a light till sprouted?
I do put these cups under a light to sprout them quicker.I bought the lights on amazon
I have a question for you , so after you water them and wrap them do you water them once a week or just leave them alone .?
Water them weekly. Or when you feel the soil and it feels dry, make sure and water them so they can really grow.
You are gonna find that the kegger cups like to tip over, dumping soil, seedlings,etc. HERE'S THE FIX:. Cut a second cup in half, 6 cm from the top, saving the top as the good part. Turn that top half upside down and use it as a base for your seed cup. Dang near impossible to knock it over. You're welcome.
Thank You, William!
Or use a saudering iron
OMG you just put rocks in the cup with the holes and filled the soil in the cup WITHOUT holes!!!!!!!!!
I did. Lol!!!
I was gonna say that too😁
Can you use styrofoam?
I don't see why not. It would hold the dirt well and easy to poke holes in the bottom
Just an FYI. Watch your cats and dogs around your tomato plants. They are toxic to pets if they chew on the leaves. Not sure about peppers etc. but I know about the tomato plant.
Thank you!
How TERRIBLE for the environment! Use your old toilet paper rolls people. Those solo cups take 450 years to decompose!! I thought you were smarter then that. So sad.
I don't know about 450 yrs but in the Sonoran desert it turns to dust in about 2 years and goes into the soil. We have a heck of a lot more things to worry about than plastic cups as you can reuse them to plant many times over and that my friend is true recycling Have a good life and all the best.
Nice results🙏 mam🙏 like from🇮🇳👍 india
Thanks for watching!