I've been busy planting more flats of seeds. For the flats I decided to use 'soil blockers'. This is a great system where you don't use countless plastic pots, instead you use this very cool handy-dandy tool that squeezes together blocks of soil/peatmoss and then pops them out with a little hole ready for the seed! It is pretty labour intensive at first but what is cool about soil blocks is the ease in transplanting them - no messing with pots, just make a hole in the bed and drop in the soil block. Below is a link with a video of how to make soil blocks - my soil blocker is just the same but is a hand-held one, not a stand up one:
http://wannafarm.com/?p=7
And here is a picture of the happy, happy seedlings in my hoophouse. I started each flat off in a bathroom in my house where I could pump up the heat locally, and then once they germinated I moved them to the hoophouse. I built a 'tent' inside the hoophouse with a heater inside it. The flats are placed on top of the tent (you can see this in the picture) forming a giant heat table! So far it is working very well as our temperatures are still getting quite low at night - about 2-3 degrees C. This way I don't use as much energy trying to heat the whole hoophouse.
In the forefront you can see endive, mizuna and pac choi seedlings.
