This may seem so elementary, but for me it was super helpful at home. I’ve always used tweezers to pull out seedlings and then discarded them. But you don’t have to let all those extra seedlings go to waste. You can transplant them all into their own pots, which is what we did in the greenhouse as we prepped for a plant sale.

This is especially helpful for tiny flower seeds that are hard to see. You can just scatter them in one pot and then worry about separating out the strongest of the bunch later. Sometimes I’ll put one in a pot, but for tinier plants, I’ll separate out maybe two or three wee little plants.

Here’s my super duper chopstick tip

That’s it! Stupid easy, but a trick I found to be incredibly useful.

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