I love the pics!!! It's my first year too and have over a 100 containers that have at least a few seedlings....With weeding old weed filled hills/gardens to get ready for them and work, I only check them once in awhile and its amazing as to the progress!! My hollyhocks are about the same size as some I ordered from Michigan Bulb lol soon I hope to start planting these guys out and also potting up some of them :) I wont be potting up tho probably till after frost date, tho I might plant a few things out that I have a lot of and feel confident they will make it!

P.S. I learned too this year about containers too lol I definitely have a mindset for what containers to search and ask friends for this Winter!

~Michael
heavenlyfarm

Congrats. The ones in the jugs look really healthy. That and 2L soda bottles are all I use now since they seem to work the best. Also the least fuss.

Ocelaris, you are doing well. Luvin the sprout pictures!

I used lots of 2-inch pots, but they were also about 2.5 inches deep. More sprouted than not. So probably depth is important. I had to drain flooded trays during and after rain pretty often and had soggy pots, too. Many of the bigger ones (milk jugs and juice cartons) I didn't put in trays, just on the bare ground. That meant I had to water those more frequently, and what I started doing for the sprouted ones just before planting time was rotate them into and out of trays to water them.

It's my first year, too, and I banked an entire relandscape/partial lawn removal on it. Nearly 400 containers, many were the 6-pack 2-inch, some were 2-inch peat pots (not plugs), and many more were empty milk and juice cartons and milk cartons. The past few weeks I removed the sod, dug and amended the new beds (clay/rock here), and planted just about everything. Just finished culling the ones I've given up on and still have dozens of containers hoping for a spot in my garden. They're all about the same size as what's in your containers, some a little smaller, but with true leaves.