Mar. 5, 2008

Planting our Space Tomatoes

Yesterday we received our 2 packets of tomato seeds from Tomatosphere so we wasted no time getting them planted :) We started by filling the sink with the hottest water out of the tap and dropping our Jiffy 7 peat pellets into the water to watch them puff up.


These little compact discs of peat are enclosed in a netting and when they are added to warm water they absorb it and puff up into the perfect little planting pots.


Throughout the year I usually save a couple of clear domed plastic take out containers or cake containers from store bought cakes which work wonderfully as little seed greenhouses.


On the first tray we put 5 of our warm jiffy's to be planted with Packet 'A'


And then opened up the seed packet and grouped our tomato seeds into groups of 4.


In each peat pot we placed 4 seeds and then covered them with just a really light amount of the peat. You don't want to plant them to deeply in the dirt or it will take them longer to sprout out. The shallower they are the quicker you will see the results :)


Once we had the first tray planted with Packet 'A' we moved on and repeated the whole thing again with Packet 'B' and then closed them up in their little greenhouses. Don't forget to label your containers so that you remember which seeds are in which container *grin* To finish up we placed them on top of the refrigerator where I know they will keep nice and warm to germinate. Other good places to place your seed greenhouses are in the cupboard above the oven, or in your stereo cabinet where the tv equipment is giving off heat and creating a nice toasty atmosphere for germination. We'll update you in a couple of days when our tomatoes start to sprout :)

UPDATE: Check out how they're doing HERE & HERE.