Seed starting time means dozens of little pots. Newspaper pots that need making, or plastic pots that need cleaning. And pots that mean storing later on. Soil blocks are a way that you can eliminate all those pots and the work that goes along with them.

Soil blocks are, well, blocks of soil.  Small, compressed blocks of soil in which seeds are started to be more precise. With soil blocks, no pots are used. A tool, appropriately called a Soil Block Maker, is used to make the soil block. Continue Reading