Re: Re: Adventures in seed sowing

I use those too Kitty, but I use the peat pots for stuff that doesn't like being transplanted, like gourds.

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Kitty
Sent: 7/31/2004 8:16:41 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Adventures in seed sowing

> I've used both the pots and the buttons - things I got from markdown bins.

> Either is ok, but I usually prefer to use the APS units.

> 

> Kitty

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>

> To: "Chat" <gardenchat@hort.net>

> Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 2:21 PM

> Subject: [CHAT] Adventures in seed sowing

> 

> 

> > A friend sent seeds of the allspice tree [Pimenta dioica] and I

> > recently saved seeds from a papaya [Carica papaya "Caribbean Red"], and

> > since both are tropicals--and tropicals have notoriously short-lived

> > seeds--I decided to sow them today.

> >

> > At the beginning of last season [that means when the northerners began

> > to arrive in late October 2003] I purchased one of those six packs of

> > 10-compartment peat pots at Home Depot. Two weeks ago, I used the last

> > one to sow "Emperor" lychee seeds.

> >

> > Today, when I went fetching for more peat pots I drew a blank at all

> > garden departments and stores and plant nurseries within a 30-mile

> > radius. Finally had to settle for those compressed pots, those buttons

> > that are about the size of a poker chip. I wasn't forced to buy one of

> > those "seedling greenhouse" kits, thankfully; found a nursery that

> > more-or-less sells the compressed pots by handful--7.5 cents each.

> >

> > But, anyway, now I remember why I prefer the peat pots. These buttons

> > are really time-consuming to get ready to use. Guess I'll buy three or

> > four of those peat-pot six packs next October.

> >

> >

> > Island Jim

> > Southwest Florida

> > 27.0 N, 82.4

> > Zone 10a

> > Minimum 30 F [-1 C]

> >

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