Well, we're behind schedule (if you know me, this shouldn't really surprise you). Tomato and pepper seeds should have been cozily tucked into their flats around March 15th (about 8 weeks before Fort Collins' official last frost date) and they still haven't been. In fact, we don't even have the pepper seeds, because we didn't get around to ordering them until last Wednesday.
Plan B was to seed at least the tomatoes this past Saturday, the 26th, but that didn't happen either because the hothouse we're using was not available. Soooooo now we're hoping to seed the tomatoes today, but I don't know whether the hothouse will be available or not. The alternative is to seed them and keep them in the apartment I share with Chris for now, but I'm not sure whether Kaly (Chris' cat) would want to use the flats as a litterbox. Although the extra nitrogen could potentially be beneficial, I'm not going to take a chance on whether she would disturb the seeds as they're trying to germinate, or eat the seedlings once they emerge. The upshot is that we're just going to continue to be behind schedule unless Drew (the man with the hothouse) can fit us in today.
Let me be clear that we're very grateful that Drew is letting us use his hothouse! Especially since we have none and since a lot of the crops we're growing should be started indoors and then transplanted. Plus, tomatoes are generally so vigorous that two weeks' delay won't be a huge setback, if we're lucky. Here's hoping the same holds true of the peppers.
I can't wait to start growing things!
WOG out.
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