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One of the most important things in your garden is your water supply.
Set up a little watering station here and, I have got 2 five galloon buckets underneath here with water.
I filled them with municipal tap water and I am letting them sit here.
What is going to happen is that the chemicals that they use to treat the water are going to evaporate and the temperature of the water is going to adjust to the room temperature.
I do not want any of those chemicals that they use to be in the water when I use them on my seedlings. I am trying to grow organic vegetables and what that water is going to do is it is going to kill the beneficial bacteria that I need in order for the organic process to actually take place.
And, the room temperature water is really good for the roots of my seedlings because we want to treat them well. I want to treat them like a baby and the number one thing that we worry about in babies, with babies, are they warm?
So I want to use the warm water so that it does not shock the roots of the plants when I pour the water in.
So, I am going to do some watering and have got my watering can here.
I am just dunking it in and filling it up with water, it is really, really easy.
I want to talk a little bit about seedling maintenance.
I have got my little container here of cucumber seedlings. I planted them exactly seven days ago. They are doing beautifully and what I am going to do is I am going o transplant each of them into their own little individual 3-inch pot.
In the process of doing that, what I want to do is gently take the seedling out and you see, look at those roots. I have tons of roots and I just wanted to take my scissor and I am just going t cut the bottoms of the roots.
I am going to take it and I am just going to cut the bottoms of all the roots that I can see.
The next thing I am going to do is I am going to water all of my transplanted seedlings and then, I am going to start some more seeds.
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Wow, look at this?
Wow, look at this!
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