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Sun, May 19, 13 at 14:36
| I am new to gardening and I am creating my own vegetable & flower gardens this year. I have started the seeds and most are ready to be hardened off and transplanted into my garden. My issue is that some of my seeds I planted in egg cartons and these plants seem to be the only ones affected. There is a bunch of tiny orange egg like balls growing on the soil and the sids of the egg cartons. They are not growing on any of the plants. What are they? Something I should be worried about? Ways to get rid of them? |
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| A fungus enjoying the damp conditions. Unlikely to be a problem for your seedlings except as a symptom of possible overwatering. But what might be a problem is that egg cartons are not really large enough to raise a plant to transplant size. Were you planning to pot them on? |
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- Posted by TraceyJade86 none (My Page) on Thu, May 23, 13 at 14:54
| Yes, originally the plan was to do container gardening, but my landlord provided us with land and soil to make a big garden. The egg cartons I am only using for getting the seeds started then transferring them to a bigger container until it is time to harden off and plant outdoors (which I don't want to do yet because we had snow last weekend and frost warnings earlier this week). I was thinking it was just a fungus due to the egg cartons holding more moisture than the plastic seed trays do but figured I had better check. This is my first time growing anything lol so any info/advice is appreciated :+) |
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- Posted by TraceyJade86 none (My Page) on Thu, May 23, 13 at 14:57
| I should mention that everything I have planted in the egg cartons are only about an inch high so far. I am transplanting them to a bigger container this weekend. But most of my other veggies have already been transplanted to large containers already. |
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- Posted by desertdance So CA Zone 19 (My Page) on Thu, May 23, 13 at 17:33
| I think you should sow the seed direct in ground. Suzi |
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