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Old 23-03-2012, 02:30 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Transplanting my seedlings

The Cook wrote:

I have transplanted most of the seedlings that I started earlier.
Today I did 64 mostly tomato plants.


wow, that's a lot of tomato plants.


Since I usually manage to get
them mixed up I adapted the method that someone here described a few
weeks, marking a start corner and the doing a grid, A thru L and 1
thru 6. Then making a chart listing what is in A1 or c6. I made a
chart using graph paper. I was careful and since all but one row in
each of the boxes were tomatoes I put another kind of plant in a row
so that if the tray tag got lost or switched I would be able to figure
out which tray is which.

The graph paper can be made for free he
http://www.incompetech.com/graphpaper/

I used an asymmetric plan so my charts matched my trays.

I'm golden if I don't lose my charts.




i've used different colored pebbles for marking
pots of sprouts. after planting out they are
usually mapped if there is some question about
what we've put where.


songbird