Ladies and gentlemen! For the first time ever, I have created.... plant life!
That's right! My starts have started! Not only did my lettuce come up, but I have a tray of artichoke starts, and some valiant scraggly spinach that is really trying hard.
Totally not their fault to be lagging behind though. I did just about kill them by forgetting to water them for a week or so.
Okay, maybe it was a little longer than a week.
Mike showed me a neat trick though. This after he stole my seedling soil mixture for his own basil starts under his fancy-smansy plant lights.
Considering I only had egg cartons and our open window area in the back (plus batting away 4 curious kiddos, who, for whatever reason, seem to believe that anything not physically in the garbage can is theirs to mess with), I was not doing that bad on my own, but Mike's little trick of putting the cookie sheets under the egg cartons seemed to really do the trick.
Now I need to figure out how to get them in the ground without killing them.
I think people would actually be amazed how often I use that phrase. Hmm.
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