Little Pots

Dear fellow veggie folks,

I've never started my seeds indoors (just learned what harding
off meant)  but I want to do so this year.  What I am finding for
pots around here are: 

one inch plastic pop-out cells, 
2 1/2 inch square peat pots, 
and some 3 inch cup shaped peat pots. 
(I'm thinking the squares would sit up better.)  

Can I use these tiny pots ? for my veggy starts, they seem awfully
small. What could I start in the one inch pop-out cells ?   I would
also like to start some of my corn indoors.  The books say they don't
like transplanting, to use peat pots. (Grandfather always
transplanted 1-2 foot corn plants.)  How about if I started them in
2 1/2 peat pots and moved them into 4 inch plastic ones later ? 

When using the peat pots, would you want to ''cut'' the bottoms 
with a knife a bit, or would that be too disturbing to them ?

PS..  I could stand it no longer and started the onion seeds in a
tray, (other than the starting date, just like you said Steve.)  and
just three days later they were "showing'... yippee, ran out and
bought some sweet yellow onion seeds (Granex Hybrid) and red onions
seeds (Redman).  They would sit in well with the roses in the raised
beds if it's still to wet to till up our veggie garden space.  :-)   

I also bought a package of ''Super Sweet 100 Hybrid Cherry 
Tomato Seeds... having fun now... 

Sincerely,       
~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
Rainier, OR  zone 8
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