3 Ways To Prevent Leggy Seedlings - Garden Quickie Episode 124

Leggy Seedlings, It Happens Every Year. Tall, thin, and generally weak young plants that we're trying to get going so we can have a head start on the growing season. Great way to increase our summer window, but it only works if we can build tough, resilient plants to be eventually moved out into the garden.

Well, prevention is the best medicine, and in today's Quickie I have 3 ways you can prevent leggy seedlings from taking over and ruining your plans of a perfect vegetable garden this year!

2023 is the Year of the Garden! We deserve it after the last little while, and growing our own food and self sufficiency is just the reward we need to get back on track!

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Seedling Trays!


pH/Water/Light Meter


Composting Tumbler!


Handy 12-piece Garden Tool Set!:


Hand Pruners:


Watering Can:


Spray Gun:


Gardening Gloves:

[michaelmarchione]

I knew about the light and air, but never considered cooling them down. Thanks for the tip Jeff! Take care!

[melindaroth]

THANK YOU JEFF SO MUCH. WATCHING ALL YOUR VIDEOS AND LEARNING SO MUCH. FATHER GOD BLESS YOU JEFF AND YOUR FAMILY IN JESUS NAME 🙏 ❤ 🙌

[willsolarski]

A Home Depot ad on Youtube was using your soundbite, I was like 'stop steppin on my man Jeffs' steez!' Great content as always!

[ICU-Witness]

Just happened onto your page.... great info here and I appreciate your humble presentation.

[emg]

Thank you. I was wondering what I was doing wrong.

[johnbarilovits]

Good info that a lot of new gardeners really need to know. Have you done a video about adding a thin layer of fine vermiculite to the top surface of the seeding trays after planting the seeds to prevent seedlings damping off?

[rlbgardener]

Thanks Jeff, this year I have finally got the lights, heat mats, and the fan for my seedlings. Looking forward to a great year. Happy gardening and productive season. God Bless.

[Jasonronsteinberger]

Thanks Jeff, perfect timing for me to see this.

[annwithoutane]

Thank you! I had this problem last year, now I can fix it for this year!

[isador]

Cheers Jeff. Made the move from the temperate coast to the cold/hot interior in January. Still have a foot of snow on the ground and probably won't be able to work any outdoor gardens til the end of March, if lucky.

So this year will be complete indoor starting of the wee ones so this 2 minute quickie is exactly what was needed!

Thanks again Dude!

[nataliemiramontes]

Oh man, it’s like you know what advice I need, before I do! I made some adjustments to my growing station including removing them from their heat mat…thank you so much!

[yukonsmomma]

Thanks so much for the info Jeff. I really appreciate that you get to the point.

[emylytle]

I need a greenhouse 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️ I need a lot of time cleaning throw away all my Christmas decor 😂 and put my plants in there and grow lights 😂👩‍🌾👍 thanks Jeff 👍😊👩‍🌾

[lailawinfield]

How about using Light for indoors plants about how much time will be good for vegetable Plants or any kinda of plants giving indoors lightning

[shirleytruett]

Hi Jeff I'm subscribed to your video's but most of the time I don't get notifications so I googled you to see if I could plant celery stalks because I have 4 planted in my garden that I rooted in water and so glad you had the video because I wasn't sure if I had done things right, Thanks so much, now I have to find your video on carrot's 😁

[patriciatinkey]

Thank you, Jeff! Even though I've got that South Florida climate so I do all my gardening outdoors, I've still had problems with leggy 🌱 seedlings! As usual, you've shown me the way. Take care & Stay Safe!

[victoriajohnson]

I run into this issue with all my seed starting!

[teresahoye]

Thank you so much. My tomatoes always are skinny and long. Not this year! Great info that I will be using.

[sslocke]

Needed this. I planted cucumbers, okra and peppers. Every single one of them ended up leggy. 20+ seeds. What're the odds? Well luckily it didnt take the first batch too long to sprout up so i can just try again. Left them on the heat pad too long away from the sun. So soon as these next ones start braking soil ill remove them from the pad and put by the window. Its gonna be raining for next few days so cant put them in direct light just yet. Hope these ones do better or I'll just plant directly in ground and live with what comes up