The Great Sprout-Off
Since my newbie soil mistake is creating some damned leggy plants, I decided to start over in some cases in case I can’t salvage the leggy ones. (Luckily, I had plenty of leftover seed.) Tonight, I threw together another tray of seedlings … this time using the right stuff.
But wait — there’s more! I’m comparing and contrasting planting with regular seed starter mix and the “Jiffy Pot” little disk trays that you can buy at most nurseries and garden centers these days. They look like an interesting concept, but I can buy and fill three trays of seedlings for the cost of one tray of Jiffy Pots.
Old-skool: Seed Starter Mix
I’ve planted (and labeled) 72 more seeds — half of which are in the Jiffy Greenhouse (shown below) and half of which are in traditional nursery pods filled with seed starter mix.
The New Contender: The Jiffy Greenhouse
I’ll be tracking these just like I tracked my first one, and hope to actually track this run of seedlings all the way through their lifecycles until I hit the point where I select ones to plunk in the ground. If you see an annotation of “Batch 2″ with any of the veggies in the plant pages (which I’ve been slacking on…), that means it came out of this experiment. I hope to take a picture every day to show the differences in using the Jiffy Pots vs. the seed starter.
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