Preparing for planting

I raided my old party supplies box and found a bunch of plastic drinking cups. I used a sharp tool to poke several holes through the sides and the bottom of the cups.

I decided against new soil (as I was impatient and a bit cheap) so used some from existing pot plants I have around the place. I ended up soking the soil with water and letting them drain. I didn't sterlize the soil (with a microwave or oven) so I'm hoping this won't be too much of an issue.

I filled the plastic cups up about 3/4 or more full of the soil and stacked the cups on top of one another to compress the soil.


Planting the seed

Using the end of a pen (the non writing end), I poked a small hole in the center of the cups about half an inch deep. Using the teaspoon again, I dropped the seeds into the holes - tap root down when I could, but remember many seeds didn't give me a taproot in the paper towel so I just dropped them in sideways.

Brushing the soil over the hole with my fingers and compressing gently, I measured the weight of the cup and rewatered if nessessary.

I actually decided to plant maybe 2 or 3 seeds in one of the cups. Why? I wasn't confident these seeds would germinate. I placed the seeds around the edge of the cup instead of the center. One of these seeds didn't even sink in the jar of water, so what do I have to lose?