Sunday, March 08, 2009

seedlings to transplant

This weekend has been another great weather to stay inside and transplant cactus seedlings. Wet winter weather outdoors though is probably fine for the outdoor cacti. They haven't started to show any signs of spring growth, but they are dry. Now they will be wet and cold for another week, and as far as they're concerned it is still winter.

There are still more seedlings to transplant, but I've ran out of pennies. I started with over 500 pennies and now I need more. I'm using pennies to plug the holes at the bottom of the small plastic pots. Pennies are great because the copper is a good at stopping slugs and insects from getting into the bottoms of pots. These seedlings will go outdoors this spring under under some shade cloth and hopefully most of them will grow into adult plants.


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