Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Kajazy on February 24, 2015, 11:54
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Hi - just a quick question - when pricking out small seedlings (in this case, it's celeriac seedlings, with just 2 true leaves), do you put them into further seed sowing compost, or into the more robust multi-purpose compost? Thanks!
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I always use multipurpose compost became your plants need more nutrients than seed compost
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So do I. With celeriac I wait until the seedlings are bigger than having 2 true seedlings as they are so tiny.
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Same here, I wait till they have two or three true leaves then prick out into small pots of MPC before final planting out when they have a good root system.
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I make paper pots to pot my seedlings in.
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Mine go into multi-purpose compost, in small (1" square) modules, and then potted-on to 9cm. I used to prick out to 9cm but a) they take up a lot of bench space and b) I found watering them was hard to get correct (very small plan, relative to pot, so easy to get too much water and the seedling would then suffer), so easier I think in a small module, albeit the added effort of then having to pot-up to 9cm (assuming you can't plant out direct from the 1" modules - which I do do with Onions, for example)
Seems early, to me, to be pricking out Celeriac - although i suppose it is a long-season crop. I sow mine at the start of March.