It is the right time of the moon cycle, so the seeds went into potting mix today in a bunch of egg cartons.  I can hardly wait until they start sprouting!  Have you planted yet?

to try to get a early start. Tomatoes will be next. I have a 5 x 5 shelf with 3 shelves ,grow lights & a heating cable in a planter box to start seeds. The height of each shelf when the lights are in will only hold up to a 12 inch plant. Then they are on to somewhere else in the house. My bedroom is full of geraniums now.

I am going to plant 60 heirloon variety tomatoes in about a week. I use those grow-domes Parks first started selling. I will heat them from below for about a week after they come up.

I started my jalapenos and haberneros on the 3rd. Most of the jalapenos are up already and a couple of the haberneros are too. I wasn't expecting them to come up so fast. Hopefully they'll grow very slowly because they have to be under the same light as my tomatoes which I'm not starting for about 3 more weeks.

My seeds have sprouted, lots of little seedlings reaching for the light.  So exciting!!  Now if they will just get strong enough to go out for hardening off before transplanting.  I must have about a hundred johnny-jump-ups, can't wait to see those little smiling flowers.  The tomatoes and peppers are going good.  The only ones that haven't sprouted yet are the torenias, and those are the ones that I really want for the hanging baskets.

My to early flats are up. I just planted some more peppers and will plant more tomatoes soon.

I have about 65 tomatoes planted, and 15 Parks Mumsy marigolds. I planted them about a week ago, and about half of the tomatoes are up. Since some of the seeds are 3 years old, I won't be concerned over them until they have been two weeks without coming up.

So here it is the middle of March, and today I bought four eggplants and put them outin the garden. Eggplants, you know, are the most sensitive thing in the garden to cold. I never before put them in before the first of May. Like the song says, You never know until you try. I also bought 8 tomatoes, four Parks Whopper and four Celebrity and will set them out in the garden tomorrow.

First thing tomorrow I need to get the spraying stuff out and put blossom drop spraying on two yellow Japanese plums that are blooming with 3/4 of the blooms fallen off. This is the only spraying that is totally essential. I will make a witches brew of Malathion (contact insecticide), 25% Sevin (stomach poison), Ziram (best all-round fungicide), and Kocide (mild copper compound to deal with several fungi).