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From: toml@rlgvax.UUCP (Tom Love)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: starting seedlings - experience and queries
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Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 16:06:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 28 16:06:22 1985
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it's about that time again, here in zone 7.  i've got a flat of
broccoli, a flat of cauliflower, a flat of tomatoes, a half a flat
of onions, ..... all started indoors in the past several weeks.
last weekend i went out to buy peat pots, for picking out the seedlings.
i find that, shopping around, i can get dozen-rows, egg-carton style,
for about 39 cents.  for my approximately 6 gross seedlings (for now,
more to be started later) that means about $28 just for peat pots.
plus, as i said, more later.  i don't want to do this.
does anyone have any experience with those soil cube makers sold by
some of the tool companies, like green river tools?  do the cubes these
things make really hold together, as they claim (presumably using the
correct soil mixture)?  are they only good for starting seeds, or can
you pick out seedlings from flats and transplant them into the cubes?

does anyone have any methods of starting seedlings that they'd like
to share?  there is an excellent article on the subject in the current
mother earth news (mar/april).  they recommend sticking to flats, using
lots of leaf mold, and picking out from dense-packed (excuse the missile
terminology) flats into less-dense, deeper flats.  i'm just too lazy,
at this point, to build all those flats, and too cheap to buy them.

hey everybody out there, it's spring again!! (at least it is here, almost)
let's get the gardening going, at home and on the net!

tom love
computer consoles inc - office systems group
reston, va
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