Potting on and pricking out seedlings

I have spent hours today pricking out seedlings and potting plants into bigger pots including lots of different brassicas, cucumbers, chillis and strawberries.  If someone had told me a year ago that I would spend so much time on veg growing I would have thought they were mad!

A suggestion too for those in the middle of this at the moment.  I was pricking out Kale plants and got to 20 and decided that would be enough plants for me (I have learnt after the 120 odd tomato plants I pricked out of 2 trays!) and wondered what to do with the 50 or 60 seedlings remaining.  I first considered pricking them out into pots and putting them on Freecycle but then I thought - hey, why not put them on there as they are?  In the tray?  I did this and was amazed by the response.  So, if you have some seedlings left over, put them on there, they are bound to go to a good home and you won't have to prick them all out first!

I've got a lfriend who runs a community allotment with access for all, raised beds, toilets, greenhouses, electricity, the works and she will take any extra seedlings that I have for sale. Seems reasonable to me as she gives me lifts all over the place.

Very slightly off topic...

I decided to go with polybags for potting on this year - 3" and 5", and bye and large I'm very happy with them.

However, I have a friend who runs a B&B from an old farmhouse he rents who I've encouraged to open up a part walled garden that has been left to rack and ruin. Amongst a stack of other great stuff we've stumbled on, we found an enormous pile of small terracotta pots - mainly 2" and 3" - there must be over a thousand of them!

Unfortunately, having endured who knows how many winters, there's not many whole ones left, but I managed to fill a bucket with some this afternoon (in the rain) and I scrubbed half a dozen up this evening.

They are wonderful! 

If I remember, I'll take a camera with me next time I'm up there.