Seed Starting, Take 2

A minor catastrophe last night when I knocked over the window shelf that was playing nursery to all of our seedlings.  Only three of the seedlings survived the carnage unscathed: sweet basil, common sage and my beloved mortgage lifter tomato. 

What that means is that I am now two weeks behind schedule in getting seeds growing, so this morning was dedicated to seed starting once again.

Rather than use the tiny terrariums when I had such a big number of seeds to start, I lined a large, shallow industrial baking pan with newspaper and filled it with seed starting medium.

The chart to the left shows how I divided the pan into sections and what was planted in them.

This is far from all that will be planted here this season but it is a hell of a start.  Because of the shallowness of the pan I chose to use I will have to pot up the tiny seedlings much earlier than is normally recommended so unless you are comfortable with handling tiny, delicate plants I don’t recommend following in my footsteps in this case.

And since it is Valentine’s Day, here’s an ironically appropriate little tune for you.

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