Now is the time I focus on my tomato growing. As discussed in the growing organic tab, I start with tomato seeds in .75″ blocks on a heating pad and fluorescent lighting. For the first few days the tomato seeds are covered in plastic to raise the humidity and temperature.
The tomato seeds are individually located in .75″ seed blocks and there are 20 seed blocks in each of the 6 bigger blocks – so there are 120 seeds germinating in this tray. On the right is my summary of which seeds are in each block.
In my greenhouse I have set out some tomato seedlings. The .75″ blocks are inserted into larger 2″ blocks and each 2″ block carries a description of the tomato variety. You can see a few empty 2″ blocks with their square indentations awaiting a .75″ block.
From the tags you can identify some of the tomato varieties I am growing – both heirloom and hybrid.
Now that my cool season plants are in the ground I am also growing out various herbs as shown in the next tray.
Finally, one of my two indoor lettuce trays. Several times a week I clip the outer leaves for my organic lettuce salad.
Soon I will plant out the lettuce in an area protected from the afternoon sun. And all this area will be occupied by 32 oz yogurt containers each with a tomato plant.