Pricking out seedlings
You’d think that having watched Gardener’s World every friday night for the past decade from various London dwellings I’d know exactly how to seperate the little baby plants from each other in their small pots and transplant to larger individual pots where they will have space and nourishment to grow bigger BUT I was really nervous about doing the job. In fact it was Bealers who spent time meticulously taking each of his chilli seedlings out with the help of a plastic label and gave them their new homes.
The only tips I could remember from Gardener’s World was to make sure he held the seedlngs by the leaf rather than the very fragile stems as the plants would die if these got crushed and to give each one some luke warm water almost immediately
The task was tedious rather than challenging so I now have the confidence to tackle the hundreds of other seedlings - not entirely sure where we’ll be potting them on to though as have run out of pots. I suspect we will have to invest some more cash on plastic plant pots but with a bit of luck we’ll be able to use the same ones for many years.
