Seedlings

This weekend we stayed home and concentrated on our seedlings.
Some of our wee babies are outgrowing their birth spot and we are now on to stage two- transplanting them into the root trainers.

Root trainers are plastic containers, long and narrow, each allowing four plants to be grown in one container. They are designed so that the plants can be raised with minimum space and grow long roots. Also when the roots come out the bottom they dry up and encourage sideways root growth with in the root trainer, thereby making a strong plug to transplant into the ground at a later date.

They will  be grown on for a year in our back yard where we built a special shade house to protect them from the harsh New Zealand sun.
The seeds we planted have germinate quite differently -in some trays they are prolifically popping up their heads, whilst some other species are very shy and we haven’t seen even one.

We need to keep them in mind and remember to water them every day else they will dry out. This is good practice for developing awareness. Luckily they are right next to the Gompa so this makes it easy to remember them as we come in and out of the Gompa each day.