Can you transplant seedlings

Until the plants are well estalished, water often enough usually about once a day so that the soil surface never dries out, but remains constantly moist. Check out this video to learn how to take your seedlings from potting tray to garden plot, step by step. Now that your young plants are in the ground, learn about their care for the rest of the season! Find more information on planting.

From selecting the right gardening spot to choosing the best vegetables to watering the right way, our Almanac gardening experts are excited to teach gardening to everyone. My dad taught me that a small "tent" made of leafy twigs helps shade tender seedlings and protect from harsh, drying winds.

Leave the twigs in place about a week. Gives them a chance to get adapted to the soil and put their roots in. I use this method for tomato, pepper, sweet potato and other transplants. Then move to a larger pot after the small pot shows roots at the bottom.

Some plants are exceptions - if they resent disturbance or are root crops like carrots where the main root needs to be left undisturbed. My max for a seedling is a 4" pot, then usually to ground or final destination. In your case if you are going to have several plants in a Large pot, I would direct sow and thin to desired spacing, unless the large pot needs to be outside and you want to sow inside etc. What a great post! So many people are dipping their toes into Veg gardening and seed starting pots.

Best pumpkins and squash we ever had came when the seeds hadn't germinated in their little pots, so in disgust I took them out to an area we call No Man's Land and just dumped the lot. Seeds and dirt just helter skelter. Guess what germinated, grew like mad, and gave us so much produce we set boxes along the road with "Free" signs posted.

Lots of fun, so -- I happily agree with Jeff. No Molly coddling! I have gone through all this trouble several times I water to keep uniformly moist crucial I start very early When I set out my cukes, melons, zukes and tomatoes I plant each one inside its own little green house. I take the kitchen catcher garbage bags and slit each one and using some sticks that are as long as the bags , use the sticks to hold the bags around the plants.

The tops remain open so that when temperature rises it won't cook the plants. This way works great in areas of winds that are destructive on new plants and can be left on while plants grow and folded down or cut off at a later time.

I bought the Almanac. I want to grow an indoor lemon tree, I have good seeds. I also want to grow an indoor Avocado tree. I see schedules for veggies, not citrus or avocado. Am I correct that the next above ground time will be approx the 13thth? The best days to plant above-ground crops is in "the light of the Moon", between a new and a full Moon. The Moon will be full on Sept. You can plant the seeds any time before the full Moon date.

The very best days are Sept. In the best days to plant calendar, is this to plant the seeds or actual seedling plants? A superb, super-low energy alternative to T5 tubes is the recently developed LED light strips that fit most grow light fixtures. Seedling Warmers do an amazing job of speeding up germination.

This stimulates growth and really helps get plants started. Otherwise, they will continue to encourage fast growth, and the seedlings may become too large for their containers, or take up too much space indoors. Even for heat-loving tomatoes and peppers, a warm growing space is not required during this nursery stage. Seedlings will nearly always benefit from some movement of air indoors. This will help reduce excess moisture buildup and the possible mould and mildew problems that result from it.

If their leaves and stems are subject to even slight movement, seedlings will develop stronger cell walls and be better prepared for the harsh elements of the great outdoors. A very basic table fan is all that is needed to improve air movement for the benefit of seedlings. There are numerous reasons for encouraging compact growth while waiting to transplant seedlings outdoors.

As seedlings grow, they begin to compete with their neighbours for light, and if they are planted together, for nutrients and moisture. So lots of light and a cool environment will help. But plants continue to grow beneath the soil just as quickly as they do above. This is a good reason to not fertilize seedlings prior to transplant.

Fertilizer produces strong, fast growth, which is not wanted at this early stage. Seeds contain enough food to produce the initial cotyledon or first pair of leaves. These are then used by the plants to produce their own food, through photosynthesis, to allow for the growth of new tissues. Thanks so much for sharing! Great tips! I've had many a plant die a few days later, so hopefully this will help.

Thanks so much for linking up at the Real Family Fun link party! Hope to see you next week. What great tips Heidi. Thanks I need all the help I can get in the garden. Thanks for sharing at Transformed Tuesday. Great tips, Heidi! Thank you so much for sharing at last week's All My Bloggy Friends : I can't wait to see what you share this week! How did you know I was looking for information like this?

The past couple years I have started plants inside to have them die on me not too long after transplanting them. I love this info and I copied it to keep for when it is time to plant outside. Thanks so much! It opens on Thursday at 9pm and runs through Monday at midnight. Thanks again! So glad I could help, Teri! Happy gardening! It's spring in my area, and I just transplanted my first plants this weekend.