Watch Before You Buy Dollar Tree Gardening Items: Seed Starting Potting Mix and Wildflower Blend
Watch Before You Buy Dollar Tree Gardening Items: Seed Starting Potting Mix and Wildflower Blend
You may have the same issues, thoughts or concerns I had, so before you buy these Dollar Tree gardening items, American Seed Seed Starting Potting Mix and American Seed Wildflower Blend Boxes (Hummingbird and Pollinator), watch what I’ve experienced.
Update???
I love dollar tree seeds . I had a lot of success with the zinnas and marigolds, I use to by Marigold flowers at Lowe’s and they never done any good . Starting them from seed I only got a few marigolds come up but they had over a hundred flowers on it all summer long. I’m planting the same this year but adding a hummingbird mix to the flower bed from dollar tree. See how it goes
New viewer… I’m excited to see how your flower garden turns out. I’m starting a flower garden for the first time this year. I have gardened all my life (over 40 years), literally grew up helping in the garden as most have. But I never really got into flowers. We always had our landscaping done by someone else. Since buying our new farm a few years ago, we decided to do our own and are finally getting around to it. I’m finding that flowers are just as much work, if not more so, than fruits and veggies. But the beauty will be worth it! Best wishes! Thanks for sharing your journey.
Vesma…… saw asparagus seeds at Walmart today…..In Portland Oregon…
It is the dollar tree.
Nice video!
Oh wow! Thanks for pointing out the boxed seed information.
Not even one ball of perlite….
My favorite flower you got is the Petunia.I plant them in mass in the front of my house…..wow, so beautiful and the comments I get from everyone just warms my heart.They come up on their own the next year too!Sorry to hear about your experience with the seed starting mix.I buy coco coir to start seeds.When they are seedlings I move them to little pots with potting mix.Have you tried winter sowing with milk jugs?
Tfs Vesma. I’m sorry for the typo. Did not realize autocorrect changed what I typed.
Thanks for the info, My Friend.
They use industrial waste dust from the manufacturing of perlite and vermiculite into their mix. If you get that soil tested legally it will contain trace amounts of both of these products.
Peat is fine, great, to start seeds
Thanks for your review. I have had 100 percent results from $tree box seeds. I use them for "GORILLA GARDENING" around Portland Or. $tree no longer has any gardening supplies in my area. Thanks again.
Did the flowers bloom well?
Lowes sells Jiffy starter mix really inexpensive with a good blend. It actually works out to be the same price just better quality!
I make my own I buy a huge 3 cubic feet thing of peat and a large bag of vermiculite Usually do 3-4 parts peat and one part vermiculite and moisten with boiling water and allow it to cool works great.
I must have gotten lucky with my purchase of the seeding mix. I was impressed with the amount of perlite and vermiculite. I didn’t need to amend so now to see if the seeds grow too.
I got a bag last 2 years ago and had a rusted screw in it. Not worth it IMO.
Ive always started seeds with peet?? Jiffy seed starter is also peet . There is a difference between "seed starter" and potting soil. The bag should have also told you the contents 🙂
Thanks for the heads up on the soil, tfs.
In His Grace Lorisa
I don’t see the value in those dollar bags anymore. Just make your own is what I say. Nice video!
Your better off buying dirt from 99cent the purple store
years…..never saw asparagus seeds.
Yes Tracy !!!!! I bought several bags last year.. It was all peat… I started my seeds and they did POORLY… I had to repot them in a better brand to perk up and grow….I’m glad you noticed that. This year I saw at my Dollar Tree they have a new brand…..I’ve bought the Dollar Tree seeds forever and haven’t had any issues… Last night, I started 2014 cucumber seeds from Dollar Tree in a good starter mix. They germinated last year….we’ll see…… I have shopped Dollar Tree for 10+
You get what you pay for. Going cheap isn’t always the right thing to do.
It’s soil that you can get and add what you need to it for a dollar. You get what you pay for.
That’s what seed starting mix is. Soil is too heavy for roots to be able to grow easily and breathe.
There is one more box – it is the sunny area wildflower blend – its yellow on the box! Its a mix of annual and perennial – heres a description of the flowers!
A balanced combination of annuals and perennials provide brilliant colors throughout the season in a constantly changing pattern of blooms. Ideal for planting in beds, borders, and containers. Contains at least 4,500 seeds. Adonic aestivalis, Calendula officanalis, Centaurea cyanus mix, Cheiranthus
Thanks… I wondered !
Marigold plants are the best to go around your vegetables to keep away bugs.
Start making your own compost. Egg shells are great. You’ll be surprised how much you can collect.
Be prepared that only 1/4th of the seeds are going to produce well. It’s just the way it is. Not lack of effort on your part.
I’ve been watching several of your videos & your doing a good job. You really seem to enjoy gardening!
Shalom
Thanks for the information…I had no idea that Dollar Tree even carried potting soil or seeds.
Still work for me.Probably it’s blended in to it? It’s good so idk what ur problem with this I been using this stuff for years stilll work
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In case it interests you & you are unaware, American Seeds is owned by none other than MONSANTO. : (
You are right. I will add things to it. So happy I didn’t buy too many. Just picked up a big bag of Jiffy seed starter mix. I am so glad you wasn’t going to show us bugs in the mix.
its a DOLLAR…. but this is great to mix with a cheap soil or potting mix
Great information, thanks for sharing with us
I direct sowed a box of impatiens seeds from Dollar Tree to my garden and got immediate germination. TONS of seedlings grew. The box was full of vermiculite and I couldn’t see the seeds so I wasn’t sure how dense they would be, otherwise I would have sown more thinly. Weeks of watering later and the plants have gotten secondary leaves but none of the plants appear to be impatiens. Not one. It looks more like a wildflower mix or something. Some are alyssum, a few are California poppies and most others are yet to be identified. Because they are so dense I have to dig them up, pull them apart and separate them into other areas of my garden so I can let them grow up and see what they turn out to be. I hope they aren’t weeds!
I’ve gotten the box blends before they never came up.