Peat pots don't seem to hold in moisture very well. At least not on my windowsill. After struggling to keep them anything but bone dry for days I put the peat pots in saucers of water to soak up moisture over night.
Two days later I found mold spots on the outside of each peat pot.
Yet the next day there they were, tiny sprouts from both the yellow pear and matina tomato seeds. With the plastic off they seem to have maintained some kind of balance between staying watered and not being moldy.
The mesclun mix is doing okay, though some of the sprouts have fallen over. Perhaps they are too leggy from being too far from the window? Isn't that what happens when they have to reach too far for the sunlight?
After the peat pot incident I decided to console myself with a $5 Burpee greenhouse. It comes with 36 pots, has a nice sized cover, is self watering, and included soil pellets, a chart, and greenhouse sized markers. So there are two kinds of tomatoes, peppers, and broccoli in there right now.
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