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  • From: Miranda Smith <Miranda.Smith AT creativehomeowner.com>
  • To: 'Market Farming' <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: More bad luck starting plants
  • Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 08:33:01 -0400


Dear Marlin,

I think you are correct in assuming that it was an error to: "I also used
the soaking tubs later to hydrate my potting soil and as a working base to
fill the flats, leaving the excess in the tub for a day or two till I could
get back to filling more flats!"
I have washed flats and pots in a 10% bleach solution for decades. I
no longer think it's such a hot idea, but I do know how to make it work:
just dip the flat or pot into the solution, scrub it with a brush on a long
handle, rinse it off under running water, then let it dry. If it's sunny, I
dry them outside, but if I'm doing this in January, I just leave them on an
empty bench to dry. That works.

As for now: I think you should rinse out a couple of the flats you soaked,
fill them with new starting mix, and seed land cress into them. Cress is a
great indicator of unfinished compost; it is highly sensitive to
phytotoxins. If the cress grows, great. Rinse the other flats and keep them.

Good luck,

Miranda Smith

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