@GemmaJF they're great for planting seeds in..........
No doubt! I have the same plastic pots I use over and over, so never tried to grow in them. They make good pen tidies and things to put loose nails and stuff in too!
@joannekentsmith Yes, you can use cardboard egg cartons as seed trays but they soften and start to disintegrate after a week or two. If you decide to use them try to find a supporting plastic tray to keep them in.
Other things you can use in place of the glass / propagator lid are - cling film (see Mary's suggestion, or pop the tray in a clear plastic bag (you can wash it and reuse it afterwards), or repurpose plastic trays supplied with some supermarket fruit & veg as a plastic lid.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
They are such big seeds I dont bother putting them in individual modules, last year I just put them on half seed trays. Sowed half a dozen different types of flower seeds today, the Lemonade cosmos, says you can sow outside in April, THEN says keep at 18-25, would like to know how that could be acomplished!!
I grow cosmos every year and don’t bother with a propagator, real or improvised. I usually sow them around the last week of March and keep them in the (unseated) greenhouse from day one. They always come up very quickly.
I don’t start any seeds off in the house as we don’t really have the space/light.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Also meant to add that I do my Zinnia seeds in a normal seed tray as well not separate cells.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Thank you everyone for your advice and ideas, I was amazed how quickly I could find and reuse clear plastic food trays as lids to butter and yogurt pots etc. Great improvisation and I'm enjoying the planting. Best wishes Joanne
My best one contained some kind of fruit. It has a hinged lid with ventilation holes and has little studs to close it. It makes a great miniature greenhouse. Also, the other day, I bought some plants in Aldi. The containers were in the shape of little houses with a four module tray on top of a thick layer of water retaining gel inside. I will definitely use those. Worth buying the plants for the containers!
In this long, dry spell, I'm struggling to find enough gazunders. Yesterday I gave all my pots of cuttings and seedlings and rescued plants a plunge, and all manner of stuff was pressed into service to stand them in: dinner trays, tops of large screw-top jars, supermarket mushroom trays, paint roller trays, office in-trays, and a plastic crate lined with plastic bags.
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Yes, you can use cardboard egg cartons as seed trays but they soften and start to disintegrate after a week or two.
If you decide to use them try to find a supporting plastic tray to keep them in.
Other things you can use in place of the glass / propagator lid are - cling film (see Mary's suggestion, or pop the tray in a clear plastic bag (you can wash it and reuse it afterwards), or repurpose plastic trays supplied with some supermarket fruit & veg as a plastic lid.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Best wishes
Joanne
Also, the other day, I bought some plants in Aldi. The containers were in the shape of little houses with a four module tray on top of a thick layer of water retaining gel inside. I will definitely use those. Worth buying the plants for the containers!