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Re: sowing seed indoors / pricking out seedlings

Hi,

>> I have pricked
>> out my basil seedlings every year for about 4 times now. I sow them
>> in little pot very close together and I prick them out in small
>> containers (about 3-4 cm) when their first real leaves are showing.
>> This means that they are still very small to handle. I manage it
>> with a bamboo shop stick that i've cut into a fork , and a large
>> dose of patience

Me too.  I've transplanted them this way many times and they're fine.
Just don't handle the stems at all, they're the vulnerable bit.

> I read somewhere -- I can't remember where now -- that you can save
> all those little stirrers from the coffee at McDonald's (they look
> like miniature paddles) and use those for pricking out the seedlings.

They are a good tool for that.  You can customize the ends, making different
shapes for different jobs.  They're particularly useful in their stock shape for
getting soil and seedlings out of channel trays - those shallow trays with 20
long channels running accross them, very handy for starting lots of diverse
stuff in a small area.

> Joan
> cmathew@airmail.net

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