Good that you cleaned your pots...BUT - potting mix is NOT ‘Seed Starting Mix.’ It’s too heavy. :(
Ern and anyone else that cares: FWIW, no sense adding fertilizer to anything you’re initially sprouting. Seedlings don’t take up any nutrition from the soil until the have their first set of adult leaves. The first leaves that come out are Cotyledons, or can be called ‘Seed Leaves.’
That’s the magic of a seed. It has everything in it that the plant needs until it starts to hit the adult phase with adult leaves. :)
Thanks for the advice on seed starting mix. I should have added that I mix in dry cedar mulch from beneath my cedar trees to lighten the mix.
I add the fertilizer because I am taking the plants from larger size pots I start them in (not tiny cell pots) straight into the hole in the garden and I am trying to make the transplanting process a little quicker (some say lazier because I can add the fertilizer while sitting on a home depot bucket if I do it this way as opposed to doing it on my knees at transplant time.