Warmer weather means seedling planting time!

The weather is finlly warming up now, the weeds and lawn have taken off and I am planting my vegetable seedlings that I have been germinating in my cold frame. I am planting peas, silver beet, lettuce and spinach. I make seedling pots out of newspaper with this dinky little tool that I got from a local company, The Maz ,who make these wooden tools out of recycled fence posts etc. The beauty of this is you avoid any root disturbance as you plant pot and all, the newspaper quickly rots in the ground. You can grow the seedlings in their pot until they are quite large. It also avoids the stage of pricking out which I never have time for !

My seedlings ready to be planted. I cover with wire netting to keep birds from digging up. The seeds are grown in paper pots made from strips of newspaper. I plant these directly into the ground to prevent root disturbance. The newspaper quickly rots away.