First seed sprouts and more indoor seed starting.

Behold!  Our first indoor-seeded sprout of the 2013 growing season.  This is one of the collards we seeded last weekend, that's been germinating away on a rack in the relatively cool temps of our guest room.  Several other cells of collards have popped as well.  Nothing yet on the cabbage or leeks.

Having received our seedling heat mats in the mail the week before, and with our seeds neatly organized (as only Leah can), we set off last night to get our second round of seeds started indoors.

We planted tomatoes, peppers, and some perennial herbs.  Also, for the first time, we're trying to grow some Thai Red Roselle.

We got our heat mats situated in the grow rack I built several years ago, with LED grow lights.  We situated it in the guest bathroom to keep it the pets out of it while the seeds do their business.

At the moment, the forecast is calling for warmer temps for the rest of this week, so we just might have a nice outdoor working weekend coming up.  Which is good, as the bulk of our new trees/shrubs/perennials just showed up in a big box from Burnt Ridge Nursery.

We are quickly approaching the time of year where the amount of things that need to be done easily and constantly outpaces the time I have to do them.  It feels a bit like being at the highest point on a roller coaster, right before it drops.

I need to call our gravel supplier and see if their crusher is back up and running.  I need to call our soil supplier and see about getting another ungodly huge pile of soil delivered.  I need to do about a billion things, actually, so maybe I'd better start by making a list...