Alice take the plastic lids off. If you don't once the plants come up you could cause dampening off. Have your husband water from the bottom if the soil looks light brown or leaves start to wilt. Hopefully he will only have to water once or twice depending on how hot and dry the house is. I transplanted a bunch of tomatoes up to larger containers today.

I transplanted tomatoes yesterday, too. :-)

Alice, I used a clothes pin and propped up the lids on my flats. Can you do something like that? It seemed to be a happy medium. If they are the Jiffy Flats, I just clipped the clothespin to the top and let the two little legs of the clothespin rest of the side of the bottom of the flat. It works perfectly.

I hope your outcome is better than the last time I had to leave my husband in charge of seedlings. Only one very drought tolerant tomato survived 10 days without water. :-) At least he remembered to feed the dogs (bless his heart!).

Cheers,
Michelle

Things can get mighty hot under a plastic lid in a west window, Alice.

Newly seeded area tamped down by the dog: I've found that some of my best germination has been in dog tracks. Don't despair.

Hope you have a good trip!

hastily digitS'

I'd say as well to take the lid off now, and as soon as you can, take the flat out where a breeze can blow them around - that seems to really help stiffen them up.

Just getting around to catching up. The seedlings all survived! Most look pretty good. David, just reading your mail to take them out... to bad I didn't get to this earlier today as weather was really nice here today.

Michelle, I don't have any clothes pins! I'll have to improvise with the next tray that I've started.

Alice