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Cultivating the land is giving life, generating life. When we decide to carry out our cultivation or our garden, many doubts always arise such as: whether to sow the seed directly in the ground or acquire the seedlings in the nurseries or make seedbeds?

The benefit and advantages of making a seedbed is that we can control all factors: luminosity, irrigation, air conditions, relative humidity, which guarantees a high percentage that the silver grows well and at the time of transplantation it does not suffer from the action of carrying it. to the land where it will develop definitively.

A seedbed will depend on the quality of the medium where the seed we want to grow will germinate in principle. It is necessary how the bed will be made where the seed will rest, that is, how the seedbed should be composed, here two basic but very important terms arise, such as substrate and compost (compost).

Substrate: is where the seedlings will develop, that is, it is the bed where the roots of the seedlings will rest. A good substrate must be made up of materials that maintain humidity, aeration, and maintain nutrients in the roots of the seedlings.

A mixture of several types of sand which can be river or black earth, in addition to compounds such as vermiculite and perlite that will help these sands not become homogeneous or sticky and thus give aeration to the roots of the plants basically so that the soil does not cake and can breathe. For economic purposes, perlite and vermiculite, these volcanic rocks can be replaced by coconut fiber sawdust, decomposed wood from fallen trees. Cattle manure. In the case of vermiculite, it can be replaced by an organic compost (organic fertilizer) and worm humus, with these elements we are increasing the percentage of germination in our seedbed.

Compost: is a product obtained by the decomposition of different materials or organic residues of vegetable origin where the final product is a soil rich in nutrients. A way to obtain a totally organic compost can be obtained using vegetable waste that is left over at home every day, such as banana peels, potatoes, onions, eggs, cardboard scraps, dried leaves, grass, cow or horse manure. These materials are placed in a container so that the microorganisms decompose the waste and obtain an ideal fertilizer for any type of plants.

Regarding the place, place or container to make our seedbed, we must always take into account that it is favorable for hydration and helps to maintain moisture and nutrients vital for germination, because depending on the amount of plants we want to sow we can use from trays of germination, buckets, pots. It is recommended that the type of material be plastic, it is not recommended iron or aluminum materials since these with the action of water and earth corrode and can cause detachment of particles that contaminate our seedbed.

Here are the following recommendations when making a seedbed:

If we are going to obtain our own seeds we must select the vegetables in our case select (milky and paprika) these must be well ripe, if possible they are allowed to ripen on the plant itself. We proceed to extract the seeds and place them in a container with water and we keep those that remain at the bottom of the container, those that float are discarded.

To select the milky seed it is important to detach the transparent membrane that the seed brings, pass it through a strainer and let it dry for 4 or 5 days.

Once the seeds are selected, they are placed in a sieve or strainer, they are washed with water and left to dry in the sun for 4 or 5 days in a container or tray uncovered in the open air, taking care not to toast them.

Parallel to the drying of the seeds, we proceed to prepare our substrate, a very basic one that provides many nutrients in addition, it allows to maintain humidity to the roots of the plants and which in our little experience has given good results is the mixture of 40% of black soil or soil for seedlings, 30% organic compust and 30% river sand (coconut fiber, cow or horse manure, decomposed wood, sawdust can also be used). These three previously sieved components are mixed until obtaining a smooth compound that does not cake when pressed.

It is important to keep our substrate hydrated by adding water as a spray, using a spray bottle or watering can for plants.

Already with our prepared substrate we proceed to moisten it through irrigation, with the help of a stick we proceed to open small holes of a depth of approximately one centimeter and place two seeds in each hole, and then with the same stick or with the help of the finger are covered by gently squeezing.

At the end of this step, the seedbed is watered again and it is placed in a cool place covered with a canvas or plastic, to increase the temperature and accelerate the germination process. As for the irrigation, it should be done twice a day, preferably in the morning hours and at the end of the afternoon, as soon as the seeds begin to sprout, they are placed in the sun for six or eight hours.

We can see that with materials and implements that are very easy to get and a lot of effort, we can create a garden at home, at least from the vegetables we consume daily

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