Planting Starts!

Planting begins with onions.














Today Ken has started planting for the next season. First he got the flats ready that will fit on the heat mat under the light.
















Then he opens the seed packets and fills his handy seeder. Then he taps seeds into each section.















It is a slow, careful process. Onions usually have a low germination rate, so he puts more than one seed - but not so many they will be too crowded and be small - into each cell.















Onions are one of the few things Ken plants in these plastic cell flats. Most of the time he uses soil blocks. He will place the trays in water and set on the mat to germinate.















And so the season starts.