Today, my two lovely assistants and I will show you how we start our seeds the chemical free way. As I mentioned last week in my introduction to clean gardening, it is super important to know that the garden products my kiddos are exposed to are safe.
Video: How to Start a Clean Garden
We took a trip to our local family owned garden store, where we purchased the USA made gardening supplies mentioned in the video (see below for our supply list) and we went to work.
Clean Gardening Supply List
- Hoffman Purely Organic Potting Soil. Hoffman is a subsidiary of Good Earth Horticulture, based out of Rochester, New York. Hoffman Purely Organic Potting Soil is manufactured in the USA from all organic ingredients.
- CowPots. CowPots are planting pots made from cow manure! Manufactured on a farm in Connecticut, CowPots planting pots contain all the compost nutrients beneficial from manure.
- NESeed seeds. NESeed, which is short for New England Seed, is a GMO free seed company located in Hartford, Connecticut.
- Plastic spray bottle. I found the plastic spray bottle that we used in the video at Walmart, but the Container Store carries American made ones as well!
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Happy planting!!
We just found your post and were excited to see that you discovered CowPots! We’re glad that you have helping hands and hope that you had a good growing season! Thanks for sharing these videos, we’re excited to share the link with our FaceBook fans.
Love this! We are buying a home, so I need to learn a thing or two about gardening!
It’s great that you are teaching your kids to garden the RIGHT way! It’s something they will take with them throughout adulthood. I sure wish I knew then, what I know now. Great info!
I would love to try this sometime! Thank you so much for posting!
This is wonderful. I worked on organic farms and learned about methods like this, it’s so much healthier!
Love how many made in the USA options there are for everything!
Love it! Enjoy your harvest in the coming months!
awesome – need to find ways away from monsanto and crap like that!
awesome – need to find ways away from monsanto and crap like that!
Love those CowPots – what a cool idea!