Thanks both of ya'll

I do one or two seeds per cup. I start more than I'll plant. I keep and plant the best and strongest looking ones and give away the others to family/friends.

Outside sowing I typically put 2-3 seed per hole.

With the good rain coming this weekend. Get some 5 gallon buckets and collect it. I like to water my seedlings with saved rain water.

I hope we get some good rain out here haven't in awhile . Luckily I'm on well water or my garden would cost me more. I collect water in buckets off my shop gutters

I'm about to complete my rain barrel catcher....I just need some type of strap to hold mesh screen down on top. Keep the junk out of the barrel.

I will put a garden faucet on it to water the garden.

I just received my soil sample back , of ouse I did this before I tilled in the compost , I have very low nitrogen and very high phosphorus. I don't know how much the compost changed this , should I add something in the soil?

Good thing you don't live in Colorado, rain water belongs to the state.

I'm assuming it was an A&M test? Their test always seem to come back low in nitrogen and med to high in phosphorus. And unless they've changed they don't test for the organic matter available in the soil. So I wouldn't worry about it. The compost will get the soil microbes working. I would mix in some soybean meal since it has a lot of trace minerals and hose the garden down with something like Medina Plus.

http://medinaag.com/product/medina-plus/

If you check the right boxes, you can get aTm to test for more stuff, heavy metals, organic matter, etc., but I believe that test is something like $60/ sample. when I have to take soil samples on a jobsite where we are incorporating compost or other nutrients into native soils, I run with the base test from aTm, unless the Geo engineers force us to do the full battery of tests. The base test will get you close enough to get the job done.

It was from unibest I bought it on amazon , shows high copper also , I check into those products

Brad this is the way I roll. I'm not saying I'm right or saying I'm doing it better than someone that does it different than I do, by any means. I've never done a soil test. I'm not looking to add a ton of nitrogen or lower phos. I'm looking for a good biodiversity soil. Meaning it's active with microbes, earthworms etc.. As I've mentioned before I feed the microbes and soil. Which you've started by adding lots of compost. Personally I would add at least some or one of the meals, greensand, lava sand, dry molasses. All cheap and beneficial and adding trace minerals to your soil. This biodiversity will have the microbes balance out your soil and make your vegs able to take up the trace minerals that are typically bound up. It will also help beneficial fungus that will form relationships with your veg roots making even a larger root structure, which is nice. Ok, I'm done lol.

Again I appreciate it , I'm going to look for some of those other products this week

on the right, cukes / zucc squash / porters

on the left, str8nek squash planted later and leftovers from bumping up to cups...

started them in eggs cartons but didn't like it...bumped to the 9oz cups are much better

Whooo boy. You better turn those lights off at night, or the sea is gonna come busting your door in one of these nights thinking you�re growing the pot.

anybody use these wall-o-waters...i usually have tomatoes/peppers in them by now, thriving...but haven't this year...yet