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To: trisham

It makes total sense to me. I suffer from that every year. This year, I tried a strategy that more or less worked.

Pick a day - I picked Saturday. Decide that you can start at least 4 5oz Dixie cups with a seed or two of whatever. Keep doing this until the first batch is ready to transplant to 12 or 16 oz styro or other cups. Then repot each week till the first batch is ready to transplant out doors. Take them out doors and transplant the same way. Just few doesn’t take long.

I did it first thing in the AM while the coffee was brewing. Just a few minutes per week. Sometimes after you get started, you plant more than 4. Getting started is the hard part, but by making the task so small - I had no excuse.


15 posted on 08/28/2015 2:14:07 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

I love your strategy, and I’m going to use it this winter. Thanks, greeneyes. :)


17 posted on 08/28/2015 2:17:24 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: greeneyes

“Decide that you can start at least 4 5oz Dixie cups with a seed or two of whatever”

Or, you can do what I did in spring of 2014, and have bunches and more bunches of Dixie cups with multiple seeds under a grow lamp until you have 135 containers of food growing outside.

I had a plan when “x” number of seeds had to be planted in those cups and I did it every day until that number of seeds was planed in those cups. Then, another date would come up and “x” number of seeds had to be planted in those cups so did it every day until it was done.

Thinking about it now, I made myself do it because it was inside my house so I had to see it everyday. If it had been outside, I could have ignored it thinking I would do it later.

If it’s done outside, I think your plan is a good one but I would put more than two seeds in a cup. :o)


48 posted on 08/28/2015 8:40:56 PM PDT by Marcella (CRUZ; Prepping can save you life today.)
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