Seed Planting

Luel planted over 5000 seeds at the end of February.  Since we are not blooming plants in the basement this year, we are using the big 1000 W HPS lights for growing the seedlings.  The seedlings seem to love it and should be quite big by the end of April when we can take them outside. 

Here is Luel planting seeds in our 4″ square pots that are 5″ deep.  Here the seeds are planted and stay until we take them outside and put them into the garden.  We can fit up to 16 seeds per pot.  We put 1 or 2 crosses into a pot and Luel has a system to keep them separate when they are taken out for planting. 

Here are seeds in various stages of sprouting.  Aren’t they cute?

Above is a look at the final planting.  25 trays with 18 pots per tray.  We can get 200 seeds in each tray so there are about 5000 seeds in the trays.  We plant 3500 seedlings or so in the garden each summer.