Quote Originally Posted by Caspian View Post
What are you growing? I planted a bunch of bulbs last fall - crocus, daffodil, tulip, lily, etcetera - but those are all outside, and starting to come up. Inside I've just got a bunch of seeds that I found in Cutie mandarins. Those things are prolific! Out of 29 seeds, I had 29 sprouts, but one sprouted albino. It'll die, but it's always interesting to see an albino plant. I donated it to the bio lab at the 'local' college. It's the second time I've had a seed from a Cutie sprout albino.
Oh neat! I've never seen an albino sprout before, though I've heard that sometime you can find ones that have matured into full grown plants by tapping into a near by plant's root system. Essentially a botanical vampire Plants are crazy, man.

Right now I have cipollini onions, three different lettuces, chives, purple basil and oregano started in my first seed flat. Probably going to add more herbs and early flowers that need longer growing seasons next week, and a couple more weeks after that I'll get started on the 6-8 week plants like peppers and tomatoes. We're up here in zone 5b, so a lot of stuff does well, but the growing season is juuuuust short enough that there are a lot of things that benefit from starting indoors then transplanting out. I did direct sow some summer squash and the last of my old dragon's tongue beans last year since I was unprepared for garden stuff due to the move. They did pretty well! The season was short but I got 4 or five nice squashes and a handful of pods from only one squash plant and four bean plants.