Potatoes and Pepper Transplants

Activity is really picking up these days.  There are hardly enough hours in the day to get things done.  Tom planted potatoes today.  His dad always planted potatoes on St. Patrick's Day.  So, he is following the tradition.

Another thing that needs doing is the peppers that I planted the last weekend in February (and many of the tomatos that were planted a few days later) are ready for tranplanting.  (See March 3rd blog entry)  Tom and I  have both spent a lot of time the last few days transplanting the little plants from the clear plastic boxes into the small pots where they will remain until they are sold or planted in the field.  This is where we run out of room.  We start with a small box of plants like this:

Each plant then gets transplanted into a pot.  The pots are put into flats like this:

Keep in mind that each clear plastic box of plants will produce 2 - 3 flats.  The picture below shows just the tomato plants we have left to do.  We have already transplanted about this many pepper plants.

There are 10 boxes in this picture.  YIKES!!  It is way too cold to put the plants out in the hoop house yet.   There is a small room at the end of our garage that has cabinets along 2 walls where Tom has rigged up lights and set some of the flats.  He has also set up several card tables and borrowed some lamps from the house.  He has flats sitting on every available inch of space.  So far, I have refused to allow the kitchen counter to be used for this purpose!  But not sure how much longer I can hold out.  HELP!!!!