Just my luck that the first tomatoes to sprout are from both of the two seeds dropped accidentally into one cup 🙄 Hopefully their roots won't intermingle too much before I divide them.(I don't do thinning, whatever sprouts for me gets to live ☺️ )

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To counter my clock-change grumpiness, I'll share my current project.

I like to experimenting with re-purposed containers to start seeds indoors. So far, my winner was strawberry boxes placed on top of to-go plastic boxes.

This year, I saw -somewhere around here- this video showing how to grow seeds in rolls (like a sushi roll) of bubble wrap and dirt. It looked fun, so I'm trying it out. Making the rolls was, indeed, fun to do. We'll see if the plants grow and transplant as easy as they say. When I finished the first roll, I noticed I made it a bit too large (I have no sense of proportion 😅) but that should not be a problem. I made one of the rolls half the size to compare.

As a side note, the guy in the video is so happy and enthusiastic.

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First sprouts from stuff planted over the weekend:
* Arugula
* Broccoli rabe
* Shanghai pak choi
* bronze mignonette lettuce
* mustard spinach

And two additions to our prior trays:
* rosa bianca eggplant
* kurume eggplant

Given that most of these are seeds > 1 year old, really pleased with germination so far. Most items where one have germinated, all have germinated within a few days. The one exception is flowers, which we might do a new round of this weekend, along with some thinning on the older trays.

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Some new sprouts poking up this morning:
Thai basil
Genovese basil

And three tomatoes: coustralee, Isis, and San marzano.

As well as additional sprouts for everything started yesterday.

Either today or tomorrow, we'll start a few more flats, mostly of new items who are now OK to start, calendar-wise.

Didn't get the lettuces going last week, so that's also high on the list.

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Woohoo, first of the hokkaidos is out! I'm really curious how they'll do. I tried one two years ago, but it only had one very small fruit (pictured below, cat for scale). Probably a result of a bad place for it, plus I suspect some kind of vole dug under it, damaging the roots (it just stopped growing one day, but held on for the tiny pumpkin).

There probably won't be any new sprouts for some time now, since my wild tomatoes always take their sweet time 🙄

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We have sprouts!

Collards
Chinese broccoli/kailaan
Savoy cabbage
Tatsoi
Kohlrabi

As well as some

african daisies
dahlias

Planning to build a cold frame box or two this weekend, time and weather permitting. Looks like we will need it.

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Peppers coming out! I definitely didn't expect them to be next, after last year's difficulties starting them. There are more in another room, but that one is colder, so that might be why those are not out yet. It's nice that the plants are keeping me happy by new ones showing up every couple of days 😄

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Seedlings are coming along nicely in my new diy grow tent set up. But…The yard/meter of snow covering the spot where the greenhouse is going to be is becoming a real problem.
Hold on little plants! Spring is coming!

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