I just planted two 5 oz. paper cups with two Cherry Punch Tomato seed in each. Don’t want to crowd this little jewels. Besides 3 times the Vitamin C they produce, they are hybrid seed but are indeterminate and I think that is fairly rare.
I have one envelope of the Cherry Punch frozen but will freeze more envelopes so I will always have these seeds if they really produce well and certainly if I can get them to produce in winter in the house. This is what I meant when I told you I’m not totally tied in to just heirloom seed. I’ll just freeze a lot of these seed to get passed the idea I have to save the seed of the ones I plant. I thought that until I started trying to grow plants, and now I see there are some hybrids that are worth freezing them to have them for several years.
Went on deck under roof a bit ago and transplanted more plants that had been in greenhouse. Now, there are 7 more out there to transplant. Took my last two Deck Corn plants out of 5 oz. cup and transplanted those to a large container for their permanent home. Those actually grew in a Jiffy cup, the only plants I got out of Jiffy.
Transplanting will go on for a while to transplant twice the 16 or so cups of seeds under the grow lamp.
The size of a container for which type of plant is an ongoing study. I have several kinds of peas suitable for containers in two sizes of containers, 3 gallon and 5 gallon ones.
I also made a mistake thinking I could grow lettuce in 5 oz cups and transplant them. I have a bunch of St. Anne lettuce, think that is the name, in two cups and they are so fragile I’ll lose some of them by transplanting. I will direct sew lettuce in containers from now on. The EZ lettuce on the strip in the long planter sitting in the dirt garden, is coming up all the way down that planter.
rightly, you are right, it is cold outside, 58 degrees now and must have a lot of moisture, too, because it feels colder than 58, goes to the bone cold, and is overcast. It maybe colder at your place since my garden is surrounded by the high brick walls.
It’s 58 with 31% humidity here. The wind is what hurts, I can take 58 okay, but not with 15-25mph winds. Especially going out in short sleeves and shorts with sandals on, my standard summertime attire.
We are supposed to get down to 20 degrees tonight. Tomorrow they are saying light rain and snow starting at noon till midnight.
We need the rain. I noticed that the beds were getting pretty dry when I went outside this afternoon to cover up the garlic.
I have never tried to transplant lettuce. I have read about people sowing it in flats, and then pricking out the seedlings for transplant.
To me, it’s easier to just plant it in a container big enough to let it grow, until the ground is right for direct planting.