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Originally Posted by Salaam
Hello all,
I have five Earthtainers on the south (and slightly east) brick wall of my house and was thinking my next project would be to try and use these as cold frames to grow seedlings (probably tomatoes, kale, peppers, zucchini) next spring. Perhaps just using some flexible PVC pipes, plastic, and maybe a small source of heat.
My first question is - will I be able to get adequate seedlings - better than those at the store? My only experience growing tomatoes and peppers from seed was indoor under lights (I can't do that now because of space issues), and that was a success, but in the cool spring outdoors with 8-10 hours of sun at best, I'm not sure what quality seedlings I'd get.
Any thoughts - what type of plastic to use, etc.
By the way, I would use 32 ounce yogurt containers for the seedlings, as I found these to be the perfect size for the size of seedlings I want to grow. (I don't re-pot.)
Thanks!
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If you put the seeds directly in those yogurt containers and don't repot,what you get are seedlings with tap roots,but what you want is a fibrous root structure and to pot up even once will give you that.
http://soilandhealth.org/wp-content/...010137toc.html
Scroll down until you come to the chapter on tomato.
Hope that helps.
All of the basic traits of tomatoes were worked out in the 20's and 30's and you can see that this article was written in 1927.
Carolyn