Sowing Seeds.

One of the things we wanted to try this planting season in 2014 was starting seeds indoors ourselves instead of having to buy plants at $4/each from a Home Depot, Wal-ly World, etc. So we have spent a vast amount of time planning our seed lists, studying planting times for those certain crops, deciphering whether or not to start them indoors vs. planting the seeds directly in the garden later during the season, etc. And then we started the "Seed Hunt" back in December and January. And then in February we went shopping... for the things needed for indoor seeding without a greenhouse (greenhouse is on our future wish list)... After tons of internet searching, we wound up driving up to Atlanta to get the essentials... heat mats, grow lights, seed starting soil, cell flats, plastic domes, etc. The list goes on and on. And then the fun in our indoor seeding quest began in mid-February...

Hubby showing off one of our grow lights.

Organizing the seed packets and setting up label sticks.

Logging in everything planted by date and plant type.

Hubby constructing frames to hold up the grow lights over the seed flats.

First cell flat planted! Dill and 4 types of tomatoes!

Master Carpenter working his magic!

Test run is working great!

First four cell flats under the light!

Checking the temperature often... gotta keep watch.

9 days later... peppers are doing great!

21 days later... Gotta do some transplanting and thinning out!

March 2nd... planted even more seeds! More tomatoes and peppers plus radishes.

9 days later... Getting so big that have to transplant into 3 inch cups for some of them!

Radishes are looking good!

Moving them into large cups.

What it looks like today... Added in 4 types of cucumbers, 2 types of squash, zucchini, more peppers.

And already overdue for more transplanting and thinning! Still several weeks to go before planting them outdoors too.