I planted four seeds today, and I may be doing this a tad late, but only time will tell.
First I started by adding a bag of Yates black magic seed raising mix to a bucket.
Into this I thought I would add a water retention agent, and a little bit of fertiliser to help the seeds along
For the water retention, I used a product called Nutrigel, which also has plant food with it.
And the fertiliser I used was Nitrophoska Blue, I use the Egmont variety as it is considerably cheaper than other brands.
After mixing all this together, it was time to split it out into the individual pots and put the seeds in.
The four pots with seeds in (plus one with the leftover seedling mix in) are all labeled up so I know which one has which seed in it. And can track their growth.
After that, it was time to give them a light water, and sit back and hope they grow OK.
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hi there
we have already planted our seeds at our center. we used the same soil as you, however we didn’t put any Fertiliser or water retention stuff in the soil. can this be added now or does it not matter to much? our plants are around 10cm tall right now
Hiya
The bare minimum you can do to help your pumpkins is to make sure they get watered, anything else is purely optional, I am just writing what I am doing as I go, but yes those two products can be added later on.