The first is of tomato seedlings that were planted two weeks ago. The seedlings in each small pot will be pricked out first to 4 packs and then later to 3" pots for sale. We started about 12 flats of tomatoes using 18 3" pots per flat. Each pot should have 18 usable seedlings in it. That is a whole lot of baby tomatoes!
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| Two week old tomatoes |
The next picture is of Genovese basil seedlings which were started 3 weeks ago. All the basil plants were transplanted to 4 packs yesterday.
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| Three week old basil |
Finally we have pepper plants. These were also started 3 weeks ago and we have transplanted about half of them to 4 packs. In the background you can see primroses and delphiniums I started for myself.
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| Three week old peppers |
We start all this stuff under fluorescent lights. Indoor lights are the easiest way to get seedlings started but we try to move them to a tiny heated greenhouse as soon as we can to get them accustomed to cooler temperatures and outdoor sunlight right away. This also prevents them from getting too leggy which can be a real problem with tomatoes started early under lights.
You can read about the 65 varieties of tomatoes, 20 different peppers and 5 kinds of basil Project Grow is growing for the sale here. If you can make the sale you can also advance order plants and pick them up a week before the sale.
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