>> By the time I finally found everything, got organized and began, I had to stop
I know the feeling! Every time my SO comes to visit, I have to put away all the seed and garden stuff. Takes weeks to find everything! What's worse, i can only blame myself for losing thengs. Sometimes I blame the cat for losing things; that makes me feel better.
>> I don't have to fight the late winter weeds
Right, I forgot "competition from weeds".
It must also help remembering WHICH little leaves are flowers, and which are weeds! Outdoors, I never know, since there tend to be as many weeds as flowers.
>> How many seeds do you put in a Milk Jug
Just last night I was shuddering with horror at having to deal with the "hunks of seedlings" when my re-potted year-old WS Penstemon varieties finally decided to grow past 1/4" (indoors, under lights, after months of wintersowing and more months in pots on the deck, 1/8" to 1/4" tall).
Now each pot that used to be the smallest chunk I could pull apart from the WS jug has grown up into a dense mass of 10 or more plants each trying to become adults.
All I CAN do is plant them out each 3" pot as a mass after frost, but I can't get past thinking of this as a mortal gardening sin. Isn't one of the Ten Comandments "Thou shalt thin them to 6-15" apart"?
I know many WSowers just plant out "Chia" seedlings and have no problemos, but it bothers me.
I don;t even start seeds in flats becuase I hate the idea of having to "prick them out" to thin them. I start seeds (indoors) in 72-cell trays or 128-plug prop trays.
I was thinking about some kind of dividers in each WS jug, like dividing it into 4-5 'slices' of soil. Some cardboard or thin plastic, or even Saran Wrap laid out kind of like baklava dough, but up-and-down.
The dividers would let the jugfull of soil separate cleanly into 4-5 'slices' without disturbing any roots.
Then maybe each slice of heavily-rooted soil would fall apart easily into multple chunks, without MUCH root damage.
I know I am trying to solve a problem that most WSowers don't consider a problem, but I can't get past seeing that tangled mass and thinking they will strangle each other.
