Picking Up Speed

Our Planting of Seeds for Transplants is picking up Speed. We have 3 sets of Plant Shelves up at the South Windows. Each of those Plant Shelves has space for 6 Flats, so we have 18 Flats altogether. Each of the Flats either holds a Seed Flat (for the Start of multiple Seeds) or Flats which have the capacity for 72 Plugs or 32 Pots. You can do the Math.

All of the Shelves are now full. We have a lot more to plant or to transplant into Plugs or Pots. So we scratched our heads and began to consider how we could expand the space. 1st, many of the Plants are Cool Season Plants (Cabbages, Leeks, Onions). We are now beginning to "harden them off", so they are starting to spend more time outside. Soon they will spend full days outside and within the next couple of weeks, hopefully, they will be planted outside. That will free up some Shelves.

2nd, Richard brought an unused Door up from downstairs to extend our horizontal space. He put it on top of the 2 little "Horses" or "Trestles" that his Mother used to hold her Quilt Frame. I think she would like that. We covered the Door with an Oil Cloth from my Folks. They'd like that too. The Door Knob is the little lump in the middle along the far side. He laughed, noting that the new "Table" was now mostly empty. "That won't last long." This will not be the best place to start Seedlings. But it will be a great space to put Plants that go outside in the Day Time as it is close to the outside Door, and it will be excellent for my Geraniums which I will pot up this week.

We have to watch the little Seedlings very carefully to make sure that they are watered. They should not be too dry or too wet. I turn my Flats once a day to make sure that the Seedlings don't just grow in one direction and that all little Seedlings get the same amount of Sun.

Somehow, it seems like we have a Nursery around here. Melanie said that the Oxygen Level in the House should be very good too.