Help please I don't want to kill my seedlings with kindness ...

[curiouscat]

Hi, I've got some tagetes seeds which have just sprouted, tiny fine little shoots appeared today. They are in my kitchen, in earth in an unheated seed tray with a clear plastic lid on the top. I want them to be plants to go on my allotment eventually.

In the past my seedlings have gone mouldy and keeled over. Can anyone advise me please on

1 how to water, how often, is spray better than a can?
2 what do I do next, should they stay indoors (got no greenhouse so it's the kitchen or outdoors)
3 might they be ruined by being in a steamy kitchen?

Thank you in advance, sorry this is so basic but I really want to get it right this year

[nightshade]

make/buy a cold frame/ cloche for outdoors?

mine seem to have coped admirably being fired outside into it just after germination.

i'm certainly not an expert though!

[curiouscat]

Ooh thank you, I might try that.

[GentleOtter]

Mouldy and keeling over might be botrytis. Spray with Bordeaux Mix.

[ingles2]

here you go CC. My favourite online shop
you can buy these tunnels in most garden centres/hardware shops or make your own

[zaphod]

Spray is best for now. Don't move them outdoors yet, tak the plastic lid off, when they have maybe 4 leaves you can put them out under a cloche, and then harden them off later.

[curiouscat]

Thank you all again, will try these ideas.

[gardeningmum05]

theres a great cloche on ebay for £14.99, its huge, i have one