Community › Community › General Gardening › Sowing and Growing › Seed trays & Modules › modules, how many seedlings?
Andy sorry, I never posted a reply.
Partly it depends how you like to pick the leaves for salad. I find it simplest and most productive over a long period to pick large, outer leaves off one plant especially of lettuce, endive, chicory and parsley. But I grow two, or sometimes more, of rocket, pak choi, leaf radish, and almost any other salad, to have smaller leaves and a few more of them.
For single seeds I either sow direct and thin to one plant, from two or three seeds sown, or I sow in a seed tray and then prick out into modules. Today I was pricking out endive for winter salad in a tunnel, also spring cabbage to plant outdoors at the end of September. For two or more seedlings in a module I sow extra seeds, about 50% more than the number of plants I want eventually, to allow for some not germinating.
I am interested to hear of any successes with other ways of sowing and then planting of modules and plugs.