Starting seeds with soil blocking lets you skip all the little plastic pots and get healthier seedlings. When starting seeds indoors, skip the little pots and single-use plastic clogging landfills by ...

You are probably familiar with plastic trays that greenhouses use for starting plants, but soil blocks are different. They are literally a block of soil. The blocks are formed using special molds such ...

Soil blocks can be made in several different sizes for use with a variety of seed sizes. Small seeds can be started in tiny soil blocks and then moved up into the dibbled holes of larger blocks once ...

I GENERALLY RECOMMEND that beginning home gardeners buy their vegetable transplants from a nursery or a local gardener’s plant sale. Germinating and tending delicate young plants can be both ...