He has also written four books and has delivered many talks over the years on horticulture. It is really difficult to avoid mold growing on your seedling tray, John explains. This is because the ...

Seedling trays can vary from £1.50 to £10 depending on the material, however, if you have a newspaper subscription save your money as you can make them yourself at home. 'We all need to start reducing ...

When Briana Bosch started her Colorado flower farm, Blossom and Branch, the fifth-generation farmer—her family had a dairy ...

Seedlings infected by damping off rarely survive to produce a vigorous plant. Quite often a large section or an entire tray of seedlings is killed. Visible damping off fungus growing on an emerging ...

Simply, a rubber or plastic mat with a heating coil inside to provide bottom heat to seedlings and plants, they're a cheaper way to help increase germination and easy to use- simply lay the mat out ...

It also encourages fungal growth – more commonly known as "damping off" – which can wipe out an entire tray of young seedlings very quickly,' she adds. 'On the opposite end of the spectrum, letting ...

Look out for ready-made combinations, or buy trays of one colour to plant together and make a big impact. If you have a big bedding scheme you can buy tiny seedlings from mail-order companies.

This isn't always true in the case of large seedlings like courgettes which may need pricking out before the true leaves appear. Prepare a cellular seed tray or individual pots with good potting ...