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  • From: Paul Cereghino <paul.cereghino@comcast.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Seed Starting Supplies & Soil blocks
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:09:24 -0700

Nope they tend to degrade over time and dry out too fast... I'd say only for annuals. I have started doing more clean cultivation in rows and beds for my cuttings rather than containers.. Watering is much easier, by mid summer I switch from hoe to mulch, then transplant in fall. May be 6 of one half-dozen the other, but I have been much happier with the health of my cuttings and not had to worry about fussy pots. I have been sprouting perennials in flats, then pricking to the same row crop arrangement... we'll see how it goes.
Paul Cereghino

mIEKAL aND wrote:

Most of the perennials that I grow out from seed, spend 2 years in containers, getting planted the 2nd autumn, & they are in 1/2 gallon to 2 gallon containers. Not sure soil blocks would work with that type application. I've used soil blocks for starting garden annuals, but that's a small part of what I do here.

~mIEKAL


On Jul 17, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:


mIEKAL aND wrote:


I have yet to buy any potting trays in the 20 years I've been
growing, but I get trays & pots free from landscapers, roadside
pickup & what people bring me. If you put them away for the winter
I've managed to reuse some of them for 10-12 seasons...

Have you tried soil blocks?


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