I’m packing to go up to the summerhouse and the garden for the weekend straight from work today, and I think this might be one of the more challenging aspects of growing seedlings in an apartment and then bringing them to the garden by public transport; I have a big sports bag that is now stuffed with seed trays and I desperately hope they will survive the journey intact…
Also, what to do when I get to work? Do I unpack my seed trays and place them in sunny windows around the office to the bemusement of my co-workers, or do I leave them in the bag and feel guilty for keeping them from sunshine for an entire day?
I do think it would be easier if the garden was just outside the sitting room windows, but a remote garden is better than no garden!
I ran into this problem growing seeds, so I gave up for the moment. My apartment was to small, they were always in the way, and my house was weekends only, not there to water. One day when I am living there full time I can start again, good luck with yours.
I have plenty of space, but travelling on public transport (bus to work, metro, train and bus from work up to the garden) with a bag full of seedlings just doesn’t seem ideal. Still, I’d like a head start, so that’s just the price I have to pay.
(I also only see my garden on weekends, and only every other weekend at that…)
I have an allotment and still grow lots of seeds at home, so they get shuffled up there – by foot or by car, but I’ve never had to take them to work before!!
It takes me 1h 45m to get from the office to the garden, so if I had to stop by the apartment on a Friday afternoon before going up to the garden for the weekend I’d miss the 17:33 bus and have to wait for the 20:33 bus! So I have to go directly so I can be there at 18:15, rather than at 21:15…
And this means that occasionally I bring weird stuff to work, but they’ve gotten used to me bringing huge bags when I’m going for a weekend to the summer house and the garden, and only a small carry-on when I’m going abroad…
Although next time you will be abroad you might end up bringing a suitcase full of plants home!
True, but they won’t be quite so fragile as the seedlings, so it should be somewhat simpler. (Though heavier…)
Soren, I hope you put your seedlings out on the windowsill at work. I think part of our role as gardeners is to provide amusement to our non-gardening friends and workmates by way of charmingly eccentric behavior.
I think I give them plenty of amusement as it is… I didn’t, in the end, unpack my seedlings, though I did show a few colleagues the contents of my bag; three trays of seedlings, a bottle of wine and two novels – you know, your standard weekend get-away luggage.