How to Prick Out Seedlings
When your seedlings have two or more sets of leaves and are large enough to handle it’s time to give them more room to grow.
Difficulty Rating:
Time Length: 1 hour
Time of the Year: Any
Water the seedlings an hour or so before pricking out to make the roots easier to separate. Always handle seedlings by a leaf, never by the fragile stem that is so easily damaged.
Gently tease the seedlings from the compost with a dibber or even a kitchen fork. Replant them into small individual modules or four or five to a flowerpot filled with Surestart Seed & Cutting Compost or John Innes No 1 Young Plant Compost
Make a small hole in the compost surface with a dibber and drop the roots into the hole, gently firming the compost with your fingers. Water them gently with a fine nozzle, using water that has been allowed to warm up to room temperature. Place the seedlings in a light, frost-free place to grow on.
