All seedlings finally moved to 4 inch pots... intro to the community garden

I mixed good quality potting soil with either about 1/4 peat moss or germinating soil for repotting.   As of today they are all in 4 inch pots.

For the 2nd round attempts at germinating I used good quality seed germinating soil - and got nearly 100% germination.  What was even more striking to me was that the plants were more vigorous too.

Last saturday I put about 8 plants into my plot in a local community garden.   These were mostly Cherokee Purple and a few others.  However the watering supply wasn't hooked up yet, so  I hope they survived the next few days till rain came.  The soil seemed moist below the surface so here's hoping they are OK.

Big rock

Well after some more digging I concluded the rock was a piece of limestone at least 2-3 feet across, of unknown depth.  Too big to remove without a tremendous effort. I buried it about 10 inches deep and decided to plant cucumbers on top.

My garden rocks

I was putting down more topsoil+black kow+ peat moss the other day, so I was diggin' and mixin', and went just a few inches deeper then last year.  Then I found a limestone boulder.  Or bedrock...

More sowing

Over the last few days I planted fresh Indigo Rose seeds, and new Costoluto Genovese seeds (an Italian red ribbed variety that I hope does better than Zapotec did).  And, some basil.

Seedlings

So now, I have germination from all except indigo rose for which the few sprouts died.  I can't believe how terrible the miracle gro potting mix was for germination.  "Mix" is not soil - it's  more like sticks and wood chips with a smidge of dirt.  Plus it quickly led to an infestation of tiny black flies called mildew flies.  They are harmless, just annoying.

More germination

From the new Burpee starter.  Airyleaf, CP, a couple others are emerging as of today ~7 days after sowing.  Since the Burpee planter is kinda of raised off the heat mat, the mat may not be helping much, but it's encouraging.

Crummy germination

Well I mistakenly used ordinary potting mix for seeds on march 1.  1. It's full of sticks.  2. It gets waterlogged and doesn't drain well.  So only about 4 varieties had any germination.   On March 11 I replanted almost all varieties in a Burpee tray with better substrate - like coconut fiber/ peat moss stuff.  And better system for keeping moist but not too wet.