Comments on: planting cycle http://www.kimberlymichelle.com/2009/03/27/planting-cycle/ yearning to make every day extraordinary Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:28:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Anita (snow pea) http://www.kimberlymichelle.com/2009/03/27/planting-cycle/#comment-11693 Anita (snow pea) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:32:15 +0000 http://www.kimberlymichelle.com/?p=1523#comment-11693 Now that you've done this once and have experience in the whole sowing, seedling, and planting process, you can forgo those pellets and the trays with the individual spaces. I find it a real pain to pull the seedling and root ball out of the trays come planting time and you want to disturb the seedling as little as possible. I use aluminum baking (lasagna) trays (which are a little too deep so go more shallow). I read different forums and someone once saved a clear, plastic container that held cookies (like the kind you get at the bakery section of your supermarket-nothing fancy). It's perfect bc it has a "dome" already. Mix your own potting soil (peat moss, vermiculite and compost) or buy it. Fill the tray with 2-3" of soil. Do as you normally would do from there. Come planting time, I take a butter knife and literally cut my desired seedling out that I want to plant into the ground like a piece of brownie cake. It doesn't disturb the rest of the tray and is easier to pop out of the tray and right into the ground. I don't buy premade starting soil and mixes because they just don't have enough staying power for me. They dry out quickly. Now that you’ve done this once and have experience in the whole sowing, seedling, and planting process, you can forgo those pellets and the trays with the individual spaces. I find it a real pain to pull the seedling and root ball out of the trays come planting time and you want to disturb the seedling as little as possible. I use aluminum baking (lasagna) trays (which are a little too deep so go more shallow).

I read different forums and someone once saved a clear, plastic container that held cookies (like the kind you get at the bakery section of your supermarket-nothing fancy). It’s perfect bc it has a “dome” already. Mix your own potting soil (peat moss, vermiculite and compost) or buy it. Fill the tray with 2-3″ of soil. Do as you normally would do from there. Come planting time, I take a butter knife and literally cut my desired seedling out that I want to plant into the ground like a piece of brownie cake. It doesn’t disturb the rest of the tray and is easier to pop out of the tray and right into the ground. I don’t buy premade starting soil and mixes because they just don’t have enough staying power for me. They dry out quickly.

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