Dixie Cups! Like the ones you used in your bathroom for rinsing your mouth when you were a kid, no? Me neither, my parents never would have spent money on something like that! Anyway, this blog post I found on the Internet made it sound like such a good idea I thought I would give it a try as I would have had to purchase new peat/plastic pots but just happened to have a stash of Dixie Cups my mother found at a thrift store on hand.
In went the seeds on January 23, 2011 and not even a week later I had beautiful baby leeks poking their cute little stems out of the potting soil. Lilybug was so excited and so was I. Upon seeing our first little shoots I removed the seed tray lid as you are supposed to and was disappointed to find mold. Fuzzy white mold coating the sides of the cups and even spreading into the starting mix on some.
I gathered up the little starts for the garbage with a heavy heart, the Bug thought I was going to take them out to the garden :( Lesson learned DO NOT use Dixie Cups!
So we invested in a new seed tray from the local Walmart for $5.00 and here it is complete with new leek seeds.
Hopefully next week I will have new plants to post photos of :)
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