I just moved the butternut squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes from the sprouting pots to their intermediate homes in six-pack nursery flat things. (I can't recall what those are actually called!)
I always delay this step because I don't like doing it. It's messy, and I inevitably injure some plants fatally. *sigh* It is really, really easy to damage the stems of fragile seedlings.
Looking at my sprouting rates, I think it might be worth it next year to just put seeds straight into the six-packs. Some won't sprout, sure - and that will be wasted space and dirt, but then I won't have to do this transplanting step, and the ones that do sprout are more likely to survive.
Here are the sprouting stats so far:
I always delay this step because I don't like doing it. It's messy, and I inevitably injure some plants fatally. *sigh* It is really, really easy to damage the stems of fragile seedlings.
Looking at my sprouting rates, I think it might be worth it next year to just put seeds straight into the six-packs. Some won't sprout, sure - and that will be wasted space and dirt, but then I won't have to do this transplanting step, and the ones that do sprout are more likely to survive.
Here are the sprouting stats so far:
- Tomato, Lollipop: 17 out of 28
- Tomato, Stupice: 13 out of ~ 10 (I lost count!)
- Tomato, San Marzano: 10 out of 10
- Cucumber, Suyo Long: 10 out of 12
- Butternut Squash: 3 out of 3
As usual, the Lollipop tomato has the worst sprouting rate of the tomatoes I plant, but the ones that do survive are far more hardy and productive than the other tomatoes.
