Started Some Seedlings / myLot

Boise, Idaho

April 5, 2017 8:17am CST

Showing my daughter how to germinate some seeds. She gets some from the dollar store. So she will have some Lavender and one other I don't remember what they were. I had her find an old container and put a little water in the bottom. Put some torn up tissue paper in there. Add the seeds and then spray or sprinkle some water over them. Set them in a sunny spot and let nature do its thing. She tried to just sprinkle them out in the yard and sprayed the earth good with water last spring. When she told me she had done that I felt bad for her. They never took off. These are already sprouting. Photo from

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Belle Starr (Iz)

@BelleStarr (61463)

• United States

5 Apr 17

I have never started any seedlings so this is news to me, I would have just sprinkled the seeds too lol

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189838)

• Boise, Idaho

5 Apr 17

Hee hee. If she had done it in soft, tossed ground after the frost is gone then perhaps it would have worked. But, this was before the frost was gone and on hard earth.

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Belle Starr (Iz)

@BelleStarr (61463)

• United States

6 Apr 17

@celticeagle actually one year I bought a roll of wildflowers that I just had to spread out and water, now that is my kind of gardening lol

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189838)

• Boise, Idaho

6 Apr 17

@BelleStarr .......Not me. I love to watch things bud and start to grow. No speed ups for me.

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AbbyGreenhill

@AbbyGreenhill (45490)

• United States

5 Apr 17

I have never heard of growing plants like this - have you done it before? Not sure how the tissues paper will sustain them.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189838)

• Boise, Idaho

5 Apr 17

I used to do it all of the time. My grandmother used to save seeds from the vegetables she grew, kept them all winter and planted them the next spring. She just used a kleenex to keep them on. I guess you can do it how ever you feel good about it. Some use those little cups and others, well they all have their own way. Just need to have something for the seeds to grow in.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189838)

• Boise, Idaho

5 Apr 17

@AbbyGreenhill .....By germinating them first you can discard the weaker ones when the times comes to set them out.

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AbbyGreenhill

@AbbyGreenhill (45490)

• United States

5 Apr 17

@celticeagle But don't you plant them outside when they are big enough? I know how to start seeds, have done it many times, just never heard of tissue paper and no dirt.

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snowy

@snowy22315 (208846)

• United States

13 Apr 17

What a gorgeous picture that!!! You should copyright it!

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Notlilie

@prinzcy (32299)

• Malaysia

5 Apr 17

I tried placing seeds on tissue paper before but thanks to my gardening skill, they never grow. I planted them in the soil instead. I managed to harvest a puny turnip last month and I felt like a won a gold medal or something.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189838)

• Boise, Idaho

5 Apr 17

It takes patience. You need to leave them in germination for several weeks.

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