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  • From: Sharon Gordon <gordonse AT one.net>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Speedling Trays vs. TLC Plug Flats vs a Flat
  • Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:30:09 -0500


A great thing is to grow them in wooden flats and then just prick them out
with
a widger for transplanting.

There are instructions in The Backyard Homestead Mini-Farm & Garden
Log Book by John Jeavons, J. Mogador Griffin & Robin Leler for making
the flat. A full size flat weighs 40 pounds with the soil and a half size
flat with soil weighs 20 pounds, so you can pick which you like according
to the weight lifting challenge you would like :-). Redwood and oak
work well for flats and hold up well. But you can use most any wood
that doesn't have any sort of anti-plant characteristics.

To get them out of the flat easily for transplanting, a widger works well.
It's about the size of a table knife and like a cross between a
dibble and a small trowel. I got mine from Bountiful Gardens
http://www.bountifulgardens.org . They also have a variety of
seed for vegetables that taste good. A grapefruit spoon or longhandled-thin bowl
baby feeding spoon also works well for the lifting out of the lettuce but then you need a dibble, old toothbrush handle, widger, or something for the planting hole.
Widger for the whole process is the fastest of the options.

Sharon
gordonse AT one.net



  • Re: Speedling Trays vs. TLC Plug Flats vs a Flat, Sharon Gordon, 10/30/2000

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