Kitty Assistant

This got edited out by blogger yesterday, and rather than re-post the entire entry, I will give you here a solo photo of our curious kitty, ready to help with the planting. He's the best kitty in the world, and he loves gardening. He hangs out in the garden when we are out there, loves to sidle up and rub against us when we're working. I'd grow a whole garden full of cats if I could be guaranteed that they'd all be so perfect!

Starting

We are using the guidance of this site to begin our seedlings this year:
http://www.yougrowgirl.com/
Here's our seed collection. These are from Victory Seed Company (all heirlooms):

These we bought at the local Stein's Garden Center.

There's a seed starting calculator somewhere on the site http://www.yougrowgirl.com/ but I can't locate it just now. It told us to plant this weekend, so we did.

Then I went to the farmer's market on Saturday and was told it was way too early to be planting seedlings by a very experienced gardener. Sigh. I'm sure it will be fine, and seed pots are enjoying their time in the laundry room on top of the warm, sunny and vibrating dryer (spouse/botanist says that the jiggling strengthens the growing plants. We'll see).