I plant in what I call flats, tubes, and pots.
The flats are 1/2 gallon milk cartons laid on the side with the top side removed which gives me a planting area of about 3 1/2 inches by 7 1/2 inches with a soil depth of about 2 inches. I have made a template from one of the cut off sides which has 36 holes in it. I use this template for planting onion and leek seeds. So I am putting in 36 seeds per flat and will hopefully get the corresponding number of plants to be transplanted to garden beds when ready.
The tubes are approximately 3 1/2 inch lengths of paper towel tubes. Each full lenth tube provides three planting tubes. Nine of these tubes fit into a flat.
The pots are large sour cream containers.
So far yesterday and today I have planted:
02/05
One flat 9 tubes Krauss Parsley.
One flat (36) Clear Dawn onions
One flat (36) Copra onions
One flat (36) King Sieg leeks
One flat (36) Lincoln leeks
02/06
One flat 9 tubes Italian parsley.
One flat 9 tubes Forest Green parsley.
One flat 9 tubes Thyme.
Three pots Rosemary, 3 plants per pot
On about the 25th of January I planted two flats
of Walking onion topsets that I’d kept over the winter.
Each flat contains 14 topsets. I don’t expect all of them to germinate.
I have a few more topsets that I’ll put directly into the garden in the spring.
Sure dose not seem like much now that I write it out but with working the planting in between other activities and having to set up a temporary seeding station I guess it’s a good start.
At least I was able to get my hands dirty.