This week I started another batch of tomato seeds. For the last set of tomato seeds I used peat seed starting trays, this time I used washed mushroom containers, yogurt cups, and an old refrigerator plastic drawer! Not too long ago our refrigerator decided to quit and we had to replace it. I kept the plastic drawers from the old one in the garage because they looked like something I could use for plant propagation. They just looked like great trays to use to house my seed starts!
Into the tray I was able to fit 4 foam mushroom containers and four yogurt containers. I punched holes in the bottom of all the containers except for the seed tray (refrigerator drawer) filled them with dirt and planted!
I used my finger as a dibber and made 9 hole sin each of the mushroom containers for tomato seeds. That gives me a total of 36 possible tomato plants. I won't be using all of these for my own garden, some will go to friends and family while some may end up for sale at a community garage sale later this spring.
Red Zebra, Black Krim, Chianti Rose, and Orange Sungold were the tomatoes but into the yogurt cups went stevia. I've heard that stevia is a really good sweetener and I like my tea sweet so I thought we would give it a try. You can see my son in the background sitting in his high chair watching me plant seeds. It won't be long before he'll be running around planting in the garden too!
Here's the result of our seed starting. I used old washed forks to make labels for the planting containers. It's cheap and easy. Two very good words! Don't you think?
What seeds did you get started this week?
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This week's seed starters!
Sarah at Green Love GrassShannon at The Garden StateLynda at Cortina CreekTervy at Garden G'ImpAndrea at How Is It In Cali
I'm sorry I'm late in updating this and reading the blogs. I spent nearly the whole day outdoors enjoying the garden and the perfect weather! I'm sure you understand!Labels: Seed Sowing Saturday, seeds and seed starting
