Ok so now I need to know how big do the little things need to be before they are transplanted to seperate pots?
Seeds Again
I would say when they are big enough to handle, but that could mean a lot of things, I usually move them when they have the first or second true leaves.
Josephine.
So still pretty small then. Some have such sparse germination that I might not need to transplant them! Prairie verbena has one, yes just one seedling. Not lookin good for that one but who knows.
Some of mine are pretty thin too, and some very thick, you just never know.
I would "transplant" the dirt, too - there may be viable seeds that just didn't feel like germinating this year.
Glad you asked this question. I have had really great luck with my first attempt -- way too many survived, in fact (LOL) -- with repotting my tomato and pepper seedlings but have not attempted separating and repotting the little flower seedlings. Will things like Brazos pentstemmon (sp?) tolerate the seedlings being separated and repotted to larger pots, or should I just wait and put the whole clump in the ground and thin them then?
Glenna
Glenna, the Penstemon can be separated, but they need to be more than tiny seedlings.
If you have a solid mat of seedlings, break it into a few pieces and repot them until they get a little bigger, than separate into individual plants.
Josephine.
When you set seedlings in the ground (such as squash, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant) can you set them more deeply than they were in the newspaper pots? I know you can bury tomato plants up to the top leaves, but can you do the same with other vegetables?
TB
I think that planting those a little deeper is o.k. but I wouldn't bury them as deep as tomatoes.