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

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!

Ooh thank you, I might try that.

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

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

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.

Thank you all again, will try these ideas.

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