One week after the first signs of life- Here are the leek seedlings. Two weeks after sowing these seeds and 29 out of 36 cells have life! I would like to note that the germination of these seems a bit sporadic. There are fully emerged seedlings nearing two inches tall while some are JUST starting out as a tiny green spot in the soil. I wonder if this goes back to using seeds from 2009- older seeds. The older the seed the less viable it is, (I also didn't take any care to the storage of the seeds) so maybe this is why it has taken some a little longer than others to pop up. There are a handful of cells with no life yet... but every day there is a new leek it seems so I think we have some success on our hands so far. To think I didn't have faith that they would germinate at all!
And that's not all. Here there be lettuce. Referring to my garden log, I planted these seeds (also older seeds from 2009) on 2/9 and had life on 2/11- in two days! That's fast! These seedlings are now five days old... and along with the leeks above... they all need to be thinned!
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