Seed Sorting

The seeds have all arrived.  Well, most of them- still waiting on a few.

What happens next is a work of art/science.  Packets of seeds are put into groupings like 'cherry tomatoes, early tomatoes, big tomatoes that need extra staking, hot peppers, etc' and then a count for how many plants will be grown is tallied.  It is so hard to grow only 1 plant of a variety but some only get 1 plant each, some 2, a lot get 3 and then a small amount of paste tomatoes might get 50 plants.

Then there is more sorting by plant in Jan/Feb for seedlings, Feb/March seedlings, direct planting, etc.  All the sorting helps me figure out what I might have missed.  I realized I was missing my sugar snap peas and then I went and saw they had back-ordered.  Ah-ha.

Believe it or not-- I need to start seedlings soon for onions and leeks.  I'm going to try to learn how to grow these from seed again the easy way.  Last year I did it the hard way.