My starter sets are freaking the fuck out in their little hothouse tray. I was thinking I was gonna get ’em in the ground today, but there’s a possible freeze tonight and I decided to skip the digging. Unfortunately, that means that the sprouts will now get a full three weeks in the starter bed, as I will not have time to plant until the second week of April.

I have frantic growth on two varieties of broccoli, two varieties of corn, lettuce, spinach, and some carrots. The carrots are the slowest out of the gate; the corn is the most party-hearty of the batch and I think I may need to move them out of the hothouse lid arena – two more weeks at the rate they are growing will make them into 4-inch shoots at a 90 degree angle.

I was NOT expecting to be dealing with too much of a muchness right out of the gate. Huh.