Transplanting Indoors

It's hard to go from a full tray of healthy seedlings to a mere dozen plants or so, but it is for the better.  Our seedlings were planted too early to go into the unheated hoop house or beneath row covers.  Today's high temperature of 10 degrees (F) underscores the fact.  Their roots are becoming too long for trays and their tops too intertwined to separate as they vie for light and nutrients.  This afternoon we transplanted this tray of bok choi into deeper individual pots.  In a day or two these 15 plants will flourish again as they continue onward to maturity.  The process of selecting winners and losers is about as much fun as being cooped up indoors due to the weather.  We will keep the rest of the bok choi for a few days to make sure the transplants make it.  Next week we will consume or give away the rest.

Transplanted bok choi in the background came from the overcrowed tray

in the foreground.  The three heirloom mustard greens in the upper left

corner are the only survivors from an old pack of 2012 heirloom seeds.