Soaking seedlings in a tray using tubs is a practical method for watering and fertilizing young plants. This would be nice if you had the garden tray and a matching soaking tub to utilize. But what if you didn't have or find an appropriate soaking tub to match your garden tray? Or what if you only had a couple of tubs, bins or pans?
In these situations, you can improvise a setup where you can still use the bins or trays that you have at hand. But you do need a couple pieces of whatever you have. This article discusses how you can set this up with nothing more than a big disposable plastic garbage bag.
Soaking Seedlings in Tray Using a Tub
For convenience, we re-pot seedlings propagated from cuttings into seedling bags. This frees up the seedling trays for other cutting propagation and the new seedling bags allows the roots to grow in a bigger and coarser medium. These many bagged seedlings are located in different parts of the garden, some in our nursery racks, some on the ground and elsewhere. In this situation, watering the seedlings using a garden sprayer may not be the best method.
One practical option is had was to place the seedlings in garden mesh trays and then position these in my homemade garden nursery racks. I then soak these mesh trays in soaking tubs to water the seedlings. Here's a garden mesh tray with the seedlings inside. The garden mesh tray is put in a soaking tub to water the seedlings.
One practical option is had was to place the seedlings in garden mesh trays and then position these in my homemade garden nursery racks. I then soak these mesh trays in soaking tubs to water the seedlings. Here's a garden mesh tray with the seedlings inside. The garden mesh tray is put in a soaking tub to water the seedlings.
