Potting the seeds

Today I checked the remaining seeds to see if they were ready to be planted and they were!!!  I also checked on my zucchini and some of them are already 2 inches tall.

 

 

 

I now have 4 pots with 4 zucchini seeds in each, 10 pots with 3 squash seeds, 8 pots with a Big Red Heirloom tomato seed, 5 pots with an Abe Lincoln Heirloom tomato seed, 8 pots with a cherry tomato seed, and 8 pots with a jumbo bell pepper seed.  I had 8 Abe Lincoln seeds but one seed never sprouted and I broke three roots when trying to get them off of the paper towel.  That is one thing you need to be careful with.  If the root is growing through the paper towel you can pull of most of the paper towel and plant a little bit of the paper towel that is still attached.  It will break down and now damage the root. 

 

Now if you were counting Abe Lincoln seeds you would have noticed that I started with 8 and had 4 that didn't make it to planting but I still ended up with 5 Abe Lincoln pots.  No I am not a magician.  One of the seeds actually sprouted two plants with two separate root systems.  So even though I only had 4 good seeds I still was able to have 5 sprouts.

 

On a final note I have to thank my lovely, wonderful, amazing wife for allowing me to put all these pots in the laundry room.  This is one problem with not having a shop or greenhouse to do my preparation.  Since we don't have a spare room and it is getting down in the 30s at night the seeds need to stay inside at night.  Once they all have sprouts they can probably survive being outside.  So until then I will be watering them inside and trying not to make too much of a mess. 

 

This weekend if the weather is good I will get my garden ready to be planted and show you how I do it!  See you then!