Steve here dishing out an update: Tomatoes and eggplant have been planted! Last Wednesday, with the help of several young helpers, we seeded 1120 soil blocks and they have already started to sprout! The blocks are an alternative to the plastic plug trays and are quite fun to make! Here are some pictures...
The soil blocks are set on a heat mat and are under 3 lamps (growing lamps). Plants respond well from bottom heating and the lamps act as sunlight. Because the blocks are so small they easily dry out and need to be sprayed with water every 3-6 hours. After about 2 weeks these small blocks will be put into larger soil blocks and several weeks after that they will be ready for transplanting! I can taste those tomatoes now!
Peace, Love and Farming
~Steve
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