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Re: Transplanting? (Was Re: more tomato questions)

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997 08:05:30 +0100, you wrote:

>On the basil example I have to disagree with Andre. 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
>
>happy gardening !
>
>Paul Janssens , Aartselaar , Belgium


Paul

I do just the same like you, in the same small pots. Nevertheless it
is better to sow all basil seeds seperately in small pots and never
transplant them. The reason I don't do this is because it takes too
much place, I have about 25 basil varieties to sow, with about 5
specimen per variety, that gives about 125 small pots. All those pots
must go in a small heated window greenhouse, where there is only place
for about 60. A little bit difficult, hey, so I use the transplant
method. Maybe we could give it a try, this year???


-- 
Andre Vanheddeghem
Belgium
andrev@unicall.be
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