(light percussion music) >>You can grow your garden 365 days a year, but one of my favorite times of year is the summertime because you can grow all different types of crops.

Today what we're gonna do is start some seed starting mix, and I'm just gonna show you how I make my own seed starting mix using some old soil that I had from previous years.

And this particular soil right here, as you can see, I'm just taking it right out of this container, uh, uh, okay?

And we're just gonna put it into the sifter, right?

And I have a sifter just for my garden.

And what I like to do is take my sifter, and I take a regular old container, and I wanna sift it just like so.

(soil rustling) You can just sift it just like so as if you're cooking or if you're making something in your oven.

But yeah, I love to make my own seed starting mix.

And what you will get, you will see (soil rustling) how nice and soft that soil is.

And what I like to do is just take a seed starting container, (soil rustling) pour my homemade seed starting mix in there, okay, okay?

(soil rustling) Yeah, we take what we have and make it work.

And then you wanna take just a seed.

These are some green beans.

I'm just gonna drop the seed right into the container and take a little bit more of my seed starting mix and pour it right over.

It's not rocket science, you guys.

Make it fun.

Make your garden fun.

Watering is one of the most important things that you wanna pay attention to.

You don't want to over-water and you don't want to under-water.

One way to find out if your plants need water or if your soil is dry is use the finger test.

And what I like to do is just gently take a finger and push down into the soil.

You will feel if it's moist or if it's dry.

If it's dry, add a little water.

If it's moist, you should be good to go.

I like to water around my root system instead of pouring water directly on the leaves, because if you do that, you can get a lot of fungi, and mold, and pests.

What I like to do is take my time and sprinkle a little bit here and there, use my finger stick to make sure it's moist, okay, okay?

Live, love, laugh, grow stuff, and eat it.