I took the day off from work yesterday to work in the garden- and then it rained.. lol
Oh well- on the bright side, it was just rain without lightning, so I cleaned up my pot hellscape on my porch. AND I up potted so many plants that were still in seed trays. This is my second round of seeds, I planted 12 trays of seedlings in March- mostly veggies and flowers. Then another 12 in late May after the first 12 trays moved to spots in the garden and so on. Out of the 12 trays, just 3 remain to up pot- hopefully half of that will get done after work today as it's another rainy day.
I used a couple different seed starting soils and the difference is pretty stark. Photo below is of hollyhocks started in different trays on the same day. Obviously, one seed starting soil was a lot better than the other. Unfortunately, I didn't label which was which. So it looks like I get to buy two types of seed starting soil again and have half my trays be wimpy and tiny and half good.. lol
Once these are potted up, I need to decide whether I'm starting one more set of perennials OR just cleaning them up and setting the trays up for native plant winter sowing. Undecided. If I did start them, they'd be ready for the ground in mid September. At that point, I could just put them all in a temporary in ground location to overwinter and have really nice larger plants for spring. I would probably just pot up into quart size and then bury the pot to make it easier to move in spring. I've got maybe a few more days to decide and after that it's likely too late to also get the trays empty and clean for overwinter sowing of native perennials.
Unless I just buy more trays... lol
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