Started on Sunday: tomatoes, eggplant, peppers (sweet and hot). Used a fine seed-starting mix (OM-1) I picked up from the femmes locales over at Mother Earth Gardens, and enjoyed some afternoon sunshine out in front of the garage with mom, packing up 2-5 inch pots and 4-packs. After a whole lot of deliberation about quantities of varieties, we settled on thirty-two each of tomatoes and peppers, and sixteen eggplants. These two and half trays were left to work their magic in the upstairs hallway of my parents' house, which--due to its east/west and southern exposure and radiators--maintains a resting ambient temperature of around 78+ degrees, which should be just about right if not ideal. I double-seeded everything (to avoid having to replant in case of germination failure) so I'm hopeful, but I guess one has no other choice but to be, when it comes to seeds...
The 2010 seed inventory is underway, with the current stock neatly recorded in my optimistic spreadsheet. Orders for this year will be going in just as soon as I can decide what kind of flowers I'm going to want, or tomorrow, whichever comes first. Among the more exciting prospects this year are asparagus, artichokes, and--oh, what's the point in pretending?...I get excited about all of it... tiger eye beans, painted mountain corn, copperhead amaranth, grex beets... even the stuff we grew last year still gives me a thrill...chervil, borage, calendula, favas, other things I won't remember until they come up again...
Oh, and the Paris picture show is still in the works, just delayed by my old Sony, trusty but slow as hell. One of these days...
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