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Last week we started our garden indoors, planting all sorts of seeds. The little seedlings are starting to come up now, and it’s really exciting seeing them grow every day. The lettuce is going great, and the spinach is starting to come up, too. Becca’s sunflowers are exploding now that they broke through (I bought her the giant, 12-foot-tall variety - they’re only about 2-inches tall now). All of the squash family seedlings are coming up, as are the cucumbers. However, none of the herbs are up yet, and neither are the peppers or tomatoes (although the cherry tomatoes look great). Strawberries aren’t up, either. However, many of these take up to 21 days to sprout - strawberries take up to 30 days!

Lettuce sprouting	Becca’s sunflowers
Seedlings

I built some “greenhouses” for the plants out of some old temporary fencing and saran-wrap, and stole Laura’s heating pad to help regulate the temperature. Of course, to monitor the temperature, I’m using an Oregon Scientific Wireless Waterproof Temperature Sensor. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to get it to register up in my weather station yet - I think I have to sync resetting the sensor and scanning for new channels at the same time on the base unit. For now, I turn the heating pad on during the day to get the temperature up to about 70-degrees, and turn it off at night.

Look for an update next week - I hope by then the sprouts will be taller, and hopefully some of the herbs and tomatoes will be showing signs of success!

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