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Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:53 pm

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Last week I planted more seeds, more tomatoes. I want to make sure that I have enough for me and some to hopefully sell. The seedlings are growing faster, some still are very slow to grow. I just wonder if some of the seeds I bought were bad. I have never had such a bad start to the growing season.

Last week I tried a growing medium that I have never used before, peat pellets. The peat pellets are about the size of a 50 cent piece and about 1/4 inch thick. The peat is encased in some kind of netting. You wet the peat pellets and they swell up. They you plant the seed in the small hole on the top. Well they work great! I also don't have to have them in normal divided trays> I just put some in a large tin and some others placed on top of areas that did grow in my germination stations. I have put plastic wrap on them to keep in the moisture and help keep warmth in as well. Well they are growing!







Here are all my little greenhouses.






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Netty wrote on Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:15 pm:

I love to use those peat pellets too Gardenmama. The last batch I bought had some kind of paper around them instead of the mesh...not good! The mesh ones you have are best.
Your seedlings look good :)

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Tina wrote on Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:17 pm:

The seedlings look awesome.

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cajunbelle wrote on Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:35 am:

Tomatoes germinate really well in those. But remember, the pellets have no nutrients. You will need to fertilize them after they get there first set of true leaves with 1/4 strength water soluble liquid fertilizer. Good luck and happy growing. I will take some pics of my seedlings on my day off and post.

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Droopy wrote on Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:33 am:

I like the jiffy pots too, for starting plants indoors. It saves me a lot of transplanting. We mainly use it for sunflower seeds, sweet peas and stuff that has big seed. The girls like them because they're easy to handle when they sow.

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