Re: Starting seedlings

On 9 Mar 2000, at 8:36, Allan Balliett wrote:

	I have two suggestions, provided you aren't germinating huge numbers of 
seedlings:

	1.  buy a watering mat (it looks like craft felt) and place your little plastic 
insert cells on that.  The water enters the cell through the hole in the bottom 
by a wicking effect.

	2.  buy a seed starting flat that operates on the same principle.

	Try a visit to www.leevalley.com to see both of these items.  I'm not 
affiliated with Lee Valley, but they sell good quality stuff and the price is not 
bad.  I've bought and used both items and they work well even for a klutz like 
me.

> Please allow me, as usual, to enter here with the most nubie question 
> possible: how are people keeping their seedlings in trays from DRYING 
> OUT? With all the other chores in the garden at this time, I've 
> already lost a couple of brassica flats to unexpected drying (2 inch 
> high seedlings still waiting for true leaves.


Ken Isbell gardening in Mt Uniacke, NS Zone 5

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