Off With Their Heads!

Oh what a traumatic day for the seedlings! Now it's actually a good day for some and not so good day for the others. Tomatoes and peppers are ready for transplanting into 4-inch pots. Roots are beginning to protrude from the bottom of those little pellet pots, so it's definitely time. However, that means a little natural, or shall I say unnatural, selection must take place. When sowing seeds you always sow more than you intend to grow because we must face the fact that some won't make it. However, my little pellet pots have been so successful for tomatoes and peppers that all but one seed germinated! So now I have the sad task of choosing the strong and eliminating the weak. Oh, woe is me! Now I could try and pry apart those little pots and try to save them all, but the truth of it is that I would probably do more harm than good to all the little seedlings. So I was brave and did what was necessary for the better good! As you can see, I have now gone from 12 tomato plants in 4 pellet pots to 4 tomato plants in 4 of the larger pots. Also did the same for my pepper plants. Look at the poor fallen seedlings to the left, snipped off by the scissor guillotine! Well, the truth is, I don't have room for 12 tomoto plans and 12 pepper plants anyway! So now that my Marie Antionette episode is over, I'm feeling good about my little transplants.

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Little plants in your pots

How big will you grow?

Please grow big and don't you rot

for I want your fruit you know.

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Tomatoes and peppers, yellow and red,

I'm looking forward to seeing you soon

Basil and chives in your beds

Of your beauty I will croon!