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About 6 days ago, I wrote a post about starting some tomato plants from seeds. This is a progress report to that post.
I've been taking the little seedlings out to the greenhouse during the day to give them some sun and then bringing them back in at night. The nights have been to cold to leave them out in the greenhouse, hopefully that will change soon. We've had several days of cold weather in this past week, so the plants stayed inside for that time. I was putting some of the plants under a couple of my desk lamps to give them extra light while they were in the house. For the past 2 days, we've had warmer weather with more sunshine, so the plants went back out to the greenhouse again during the day.
I've lost a couple of the smallest plants, mostly the Roma plants. I think I waited too long to transplant the seed starter pods into pots with planting dirt, and it probably damaged the roots. A lesson learned.
I also decided that it was time to start some marigold seeds. I plant the marigolds in among the tomato plants, it's supposed to help keep some of the bad bugs away from the tomato plants. I decided to try starting the marigold seeds in the little fiber pots with seed starter soil. I did the dirt work out in the greenhouse on the workbench.
After I got all the seeds planted that I wanted, I brought the fiber pot strips into the house and put them in my seed starter tray on the heat mat. I also planted more Roma tomato seeds in 6 of the peat pods to start more of those plants.
Now it's just a matter of waiting to see how long it takes for the marigold seeds to come up, and how many seeds sprout. I planted 2 seeds in each little fiber pot, just in case the germination wasn't very good. I'm also hoping the Roma tomato seeds sprout well, but that remains to be seen.
That's all I have for this update, thanks for stopping by to check it out!
