The film you are about to see is going to give you the education you need to be able to grow your own "amazing" vegetables. If you're not already a gardener you only need the decision to do what you are about to see being done. If you are already a gardener, I think you will enjoy seeing what I do in my little garden... and I'd love to see what you can do in yours!
Starting Seeds: Seed starting can be troublesome in the beginning. Some years ago, after planting corn seeds and watching only a few actually sprout, I started investigating to find out why. What I found was almost microscopic white bugs eating the entire interior of each seed, leaving only the outer thin shell. Apparently their hatching cycle was matching my planting cycle. I noticed they didn't bother the germinated seeds.
To solve the problem, it was obvious that if I wanted any corn that year, I'd have to figure out another way to start seeds. The problem was that I felt that transplanted corn was hardly worth bothering with, but maybe I could just get the roots started and just plant sprouted seeds.
Over the years, the best way I've found to handle that problem works perfectly well, and very quickly on corn or any other other large seeds-beans, squash, cucumber, etc.
I put about a 2 ft. length of paper towel on the kitchen counter, pour my seeds along the bottom edge, roll them up in the paper towel, fold in the edges and run the whole thing under hot tap water - saturating the towelling. Then I just put it on a dish or saucer and place it in the corner of the kitchen counter where they'll remain pretty close to room temperature.
I have to wet them another time or two, so that they don't dry out and in 2 to 3 or 4 days, the plant’s roots will be up to an inch or two long, but the green shoot may or may not be showing.
I then make a little hole in the garden bed, put the seed in, (root down of course), with just the crown of the seed at the surface. Beans that should take 55 days to maturity took 42 days, planted with that method, and all other plants were equally fast.
