Recycled Plant Containers

We started many of our garden plants from seed this year using empty spinach containers.  These were excellent seed starters because they worked like mini greenhouses when we first planted our seeds.  Just put a few inches of soil in the container, plant seeds, cover with soil according to seed packet directions, lightly water, lightly cover with plastic lid, and place in a sunny spot.  Many of the seeds germinated in a couple of days.  For instance, the seed packet for my organic beets states that the seeds will germinate in 14 or more days.  In my little recycled "greenhouse" the seeds germinated in about 5 days.  It's amazing!  As you can see in the first picture, the string beans and snap beans took off like crazy.  They were just about flowering only a few weeks after planting.  I will definitely use this container technique next year as it was very successful.  We just transferred our plants outside this past weekend with 2 days of lovely spring rain showers to follow.  So far they are thriving well and we're hoping for a wonderful harvest!