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Here is some more pics of my up potting. I'm going to back up a little with some basic info that may be useful to new gardeners. This is how I prepare my cups, I poke holes with an old ball point pen and then mark the cup with the variety I'm going to insert. These are what I'll repot now...

When I plant seeds indoors I plant way more to a container than it will support. I could just thin out the weak sprouts and leave one to each container cell, or just plant a couple of seeds per cell. I don't, I take and "broadcast" the seeds as I always have a bunch of out dated ones to use up...

I grow them on our emu's fence. Six foot fence but they find their way up into a large cedar tree and I end up sending some one up in the front loader bucket of one of my tractors for the harvest. I've never tried to make them into any sort of special shapes, just let them grow. THANX RICH

I was going to help a friend by taking a road trip with his truck and trailer and pick up a load of tubing. His dog had the habit of chasing vehicles and went after the trailer, he bit into the sidewall of a tire and slowed the trip down be a couple hours, he took out a fairly new tire...

I try and use only MiracleGro Micromix potting soil. Always on the look out for end of season or broken bags, looking for a deal!!! THANX RICH

I can't wait for asparagus season to begin. Strawberries were my 1st venture into gardening. THANX RICH

Any start is a good start!!! THANX RICH

This evening was my first transplant or up/plant. This was a small group of six Hillbilly tomatos, a 4 cell container which only had 6 germinate I gently worked the seedlings loose from the container with the 6" scale, here they are in a pan with the scale for a size comparison. I...

No I don't, so it will be awhile before they go out there. The room they're in is 24' X 24' with lots of table space so they stay inside until temps are good in greenhouse. Some times they get a little leggy so by the time they leave the house they are in quart styro cup with stem buried deep...

They are too close together!! There are fans for them also!!! When they develop a couple of true leaves I seperate them into individual pots to continue their journey towards maturity. What I have, so far, not counting the herbs and peppers, will probably be upwards of 150 tomato plants. There...

So far, Brandywine,Yellow Pear, Delicious, Lg Red Cherry, Garden Leader Monster, Beef Steak, Rutgers, San Marzano and Hillbilly. My Parsley, Dill, Cilantro and Cayenne Peppers have also germaniated. There are still some more tomatoes to sprout, lots more peppers and a bunch of strawberries...

These photos were taken this afternoon. All these little fellows were started a week ago in used potting soil. I'm using used containers from store bought plants and used styro coffee cups. I water from bottom only and kept covered with plastic until they popped through soil, once they were up I...

I read all about the shortage. What bothered me were the haters commenting that it's not really cheese, I beg to differ, it's the greatest form of cheese there is!!!!!!!!! THANX RICH

You need to get you bed springs in out of the cold!!! THANX RICH

Just like grandma had.