potting soil below seed starter

tlcmd · February 5, 2009

Planning to soak parsley seeds and start flats with parsley , marigolds, mint, pepper and tomato seeds over the next day or so.
Question: has anyone strong opinions, reasons, or thoughts (nay or yea) upon using potting soil as a base beneath my seed starter in my planting flats? Using Fafard products. And deep 54 and 36 cell flats.

Thanks

robin303 · February 6, 2009

Doing it now in fact. You pay maybe $5 bucks for that little bag of seed starter stuff and then I buy that Scott's potting soil which I mix with Black Kow. So 2 thirds is potting soil and maybe a inch of that seed starter mix. It seems to being ok because I have 100 pepper and tomato plants in full sun everyday now.

salix · February 6, 2009

Have done it for years, think that it actually works better because the potting mix has much better drainage than the seed starting mix...

tlcmd · February 6, 2009

Thanks. I appreciate the votes of confidence in my plan. Will begin later today.

February 5, 2009	#1
tlcmd Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Greensboro, N.C. Posts: 132	potting soil below seed starter Planning to soak parsley seeds and start flats with parsley , marigolds, mint, pepper and tomato seeds over the next day or so. Question: has anyone strong opinions, reasons, or thoughts (nay or yea) upon using potting soil as a base beneath my seed starter in my planting flats? Using Fafard products. And deep 54 and 36 cell flats. Thanks __________________ Harmmmmmmmmmoniously, Dick "If only Longstreet had followed orders......" "Show me something more beautiful than a beautiful woman and then I'll go paint it." Alberto Vargas

February 6, 2009	#4
tlcmd Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Greensboro, N.C. Posts: 132	Thanks. I appreciate the votes of confidence in my plan. Will begin later today. __________________ Harmmmmmmmmmoniously, Dick "If only Longstreet had followed orders......" "Show me something more beautiful than a beautiful woman and then I'll go paint it." Alberto Vargas

February 6, 2009	#2
robin303 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Austin, TX Zone 8b Posts: 531	Doing it now in fact. You pay maybe $5 bucks for that little bag of seed starter stuff and then I buy that Scott's potting soil which I mix with Black Kow. So 2 thirds is potting soil and maybe a inch of that seed starter mix. It seems to being ok because I have 100 pepper and tomato plants in full sun everyday now.

February 6, 2009	#3
salix Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: north central B.C. Posts: 2,310	Have done it for years, think that it actually works better because the potting mix has much better drainage than the seed starting mix...