Things are growing around here. We are busy in the green house moving our heat loving plants into bigger pots as it it still too cold to put the outside. We are busy moving not so sensitive plants out of the green house and into the ground. We are busy in the gardens mulching and weeding and putting up things for our climbers to climb on.
I talked about in an earlier post that we were using egg cartons, newspaper pots and toilet paper rolls for our seedlings. I have come to the conclusions that TP rolls are out. I am not sure why but our seeds did not seem to do as well in them. They also dont seem to decompose very quickly in the soil. So after one short season of research this is our preferred method of starting seeds.
The egg cartons are great for starting smaller seeds. They need to be kept moist. It seems that one of those pressure mister sprayer bottles works best. We tried a normal spray bottle and it took FOREVER. Once the seedlings get about this big you will notice their roots are starting to come through the bottom. Time to transfer to the newspaper pots.
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| The newspaper pots are great. I watch a you tube video to get the jist of it. Just don't use the glossy paper. Bad chemicals! They are good for planting bigger seeds like pumpkin and for moving small seedlings from the egg cartons into. When you plant them in to ground you can put the whole pot in but we have been carefully unfolding the paper and planting them without the pot. The paper seems a bit thick to me. |
After the paper pots we have been moving some things into the ground into the green house, some things outside, and others into plastic pots. Whey need more room to grow but cant go outside yet, It seems a shame to use plastic now when we have avoided it thus far but I have yet to come up with a cheap alternative. Any ideas?!
wow, you are really into the gardening! Ed & I just stick seeds into the ground once it warms up. No wonder it becomes a race against the first frost.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't you make bigger newspaper pots?
Maybe we could. Find something bigger to form them around and make em a bit thicker? Worth a try. I was thinking burlap bags, but Nig thought the roots might come thru.
ReplyDeletehere's an idea if you dont have alot of room to plant potatos... put the eyes/skins in a burlap sack w/lots of dirt. Seriously, you will have a sack of potatoes come harvest! Burlap keeps the soil moist, but not TOO moist so the potatoes won't get overly wet and spoil. Apartment living is such fun!!!! :)
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