posted 1 year ago
I decided to start a bunch of seeds left over from last year. Being at least a year old, and not stored carefully, I assumed many would fail. So, I planted the old ones 2 or 3 to a hole to improve my odds.
To my astonishment, the germination seemed to be as good as last year's. The seedlings are out of the ground about a week, so still lacking true leaves. They are looking good to me.
My question is, what do you do with veggie seedlings that are packed into cell-packs? Like 3 tomatoes growing out of the same planting hole? Is their a way to extract one or 2 of them and replant? Or do I let them go for a bit, see which appear to be going the bets, and snip off the others?
I personally have plenty for my own garden needs, but I have some really good stuff I would love to see go to a good home (a number of really delicious heirloom toms, peppers, eggplant, brocc, kohlrabi...). I would be find doing the work separating and replanting them. I've just never done it, and have no idea if it's possible, or what kind of success rates I should expect.
I'm very glad this site as a gardening for beginners section! I always grew from greenhouse seedlings, and only in the past couple yeras tried my hand and starting from seed. It's a lot of fun. A little nerve wracking--I was slightly too cool, so things were considerably slower than I expected. I was ready to dump the whole project, and then they started popping. I guess, Mother Nature takes as long as she takes.