Re: HYB:Planting Seedlings

> > (styrofoam coffee cups)
>
> Styrofoam coffee cups are the same size as the hole made with a bulb setter. 
> Seedlings planted in these cups can be popped into a hole made by a bulb 
> setter and never know they've been moved.  
> 
> Betty W from South-central KY zone 6--currently wishing all those seedlings 
> planted into mum pots last summer were in the cups instead!  Much easier to 
> plant.
> 
   Betty, what a neat idea.  I gotta write this down so I'll remember.  I do a similar trick 
with my arilbreds since they are so hard to get started in this area, with transplant 
shock taking out quite a number if you just pull them out of the pots and line them 
out.

   Another neat idea I picked up recently  has nothing to do with planting seedlings, 
but might have to do with weeding seedlings.  Concerning the use of Roundup in 
cramped quarters where you cannot spray, put on a rubber glove and then a cloth 
glove over the rubber glove.  Stick your double-gloved hand into your Round-up 
mixture so the cloth glove will absorb the Roundup or spray the pre-mixed Roundup 
on to the outside cloth glove. Let the cloth glove drain.  Then touch the weeds with 
the Roundup treated gloved hand so the Roundup goes only on the weeds.  At little 
bit of Roundup will go a long way.  I am going to spray the Round up on the cloth 
glove the next time to get it saturated with the mixture.


If you have just a small spot, then the stoop and yank procedure is the best, but if 
you have a large one, this is the way to go when it is a risk to other plants if you 
spray.

Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8

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