El Paso Hobby Gardening: Transplanting Plants from Eggs to Creative Containers

Roma Tomato 2/21

The time has com and its time to transplant many of the seeds from the 1/23 batch. I did this on February 21st.

Jamaica 2/21

Okra 2/21

I got a bit creative with the containers as I figured I was spending too much on pots. Although the Family Dollar does sell them at a pretty good price. Here are my homemade pots for the seedlings. You can see these are milk and margarine containers. For the milk containers it was a bit more work to cut them but very rewarding. I cut off the top with a utility knife with self loading blades and pierce holes in the form of tiny crosses on the bottom for drainage.. I left the handle on them and that makes them really easy to carry from indoor to outdoor while hardening the plant. Also tomatoes don't like weather below 50F so I bring them in when it drops at night bellow that. I wish I had had more of these containers. The margarine containers didn't take much work other than piercing the hole at the bottom for drainage and as a plus I use the lid as a drip try. However I haven't liked them as much since they are more work to pick up and the plants I put in them haven't really taken a liking to them.