It’s getting near that time when a whole lotta seed gets started—company is on the way for the onions and parsley! I’m still sorting and setting up around here, doing a bit of this and a bit of that every day (an INCREMENTAL approach to the many different things to do on the tiny farm that would drive some people…nuts, but works for me right now! :). On the getting-ready-for-seed-starting front, today I unpacked all of the plug sheets and trays from inside the composting toilet home where they made the farm move. It’s a stack about 5-1/2′ (1.7m) high, still dusty from months of storage on the Big Shelf. It’s a bit of a head rush to imagine all of them being filled, tended, and then moved out to the field in the next three months. Crazy.
Wow!
I was wondering, how do you clean all of those?
Love your blog, by the way: am following closely what you do!
I think you’re getting excited.. kinda like a new school year for a teacher. You just can’t wait for that first day, but there’s a lot of work to get ready for it!
Ohhh my that is a lot of seed starting. I can honestly say I don’t know how you do it..completely impressed! Kim
Do you think that is enough plug trays?! ;)
I’m just a home gardener. The sight of 5 1/2 feet of those seed starting trays makes me cringe. What a lot of work! You do earn your money, Mike. Your blog is one of the important ones that I turn to every morning. Wish you well with your new farm.
Do you clean/sterilise your trays somehow? What is your experience with desease, fungi etc?
Liina
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Yeah, the stack looks pretty big and imposing to me, too! This is the first time I’ve seen them in one big stack. Yikes!
The rinsing is easy. Because I use a soilless potting mix, nothing much sticks, you just tap ’em out. And when water hits them, they rinse clean.
I used to be a bit fanatical about sterilizing, soaked them for a bit in a 1:10 dilution of regular strength (5%) bleach, which is the usual recommendation for sanitizing food prep surfaces and the like. I was concerned about DISEASE festering in the warm, moist, protected indoor conditions. I’m more laid back now, I sponge off with soap and water any dirt stuck to the bottoms from being out in the field for transplanting, and give them all a good water rinse!
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Can you please tell me the prices of your Plug Sheets, get Ready.
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