Here are what my tomatoes look like after two weeks. I transplanted them last weekend to the larger containers, and will probably transplant one more time before setting out time. They survived the first handling fairly well. White containers are Celebrity, the others are Better Boy.
The other picture shows my new method for starting the plants. My wife read somewhere the a used TP roll cut in half made an excellent starter container for growing indoor plants. You can get a bunch in a flat, I have 50 in this one flat. In the first flat I did, the germination rate on the tomatoes was unreal. I put just one seed per TP roll and got over 90%. From these it was easy to lift the starts out and transplant to the larger container. Also, the paper should just deteriate in the soil.
Most of this flat was started last Saturday. The two rows on the left are left over from the first start two weeks ago. I think the second row has bell pepper. I planted last year egg plant seed and pepper seed in those two rows, but I forgot which is which. The stringy stuff in rows 7 and 8 are broccilli, my first time ever to try it. I have a couple of yellow squash coming up. I know it is too early for it but my goal is to nurture it along in some indoor pots and maybe get an early crop. We will see. Other items that should come up in this flat are a few more tomatoes, bell pepper, jalepeno pepper and egg plant. It is interesting how the seeds vary in germination time.
