How do you usually start your seeds?

[Andrey_BY]

Is it only soaking during several hours/days or just put dry tomato/pepper seeds into the can/box with soil?

Usually we soak them in the melted water (out of snow) with the extra addition of manganese (always) + some special bio-regulators (stimulators) made of peat, wooden ashes or Siberian needles and several microbiogical regulators (stimulators) which help to prevent many deseases and stimulate quick germination and growth. Time of soaking could be from half an hour to half a day or even a day. Then
put the seeds into running water and dry a little bit.

The simpliest recipe is of course soaking seeds in wooden ashes.
Take 1 l of warm water and 2 big spoons of wooden ashes, leave it for 24h (mixing several times). Bring this liquid to another can and put gauze bag with your seeds for 3-4 hours.

Then put your wet seeds into small fabric bag and temper with different temperatures during 3-10 days (the whole night in the fridge (0 +5 C) and the whole day at any warm place at home). If you don't have enough time or patience you can do termering during one
day (24h) in fridge.

After that just plant your seeds into soil and we highly suggest you add some snow to cover this soil (if you have snow in February or March ;-). This melted snow will stimulate seeds to germinate faster and all together. Usually this water out of snow is much milder than
normal.

After all of these prepairations you will certainly have healthy, desease and cold tolerant plants of tomatoes and peppers!