Turnip sprouts!

I have no photographic proof of this, so you'll have to take my word for it, but there are tiny turnip sprouts coming up as of today!

Our seedling set-up

Hard to believe these photos are a month old! This is the set-up on our enclosed front porch where we grow our seedlings. Which means we have a grow-light on in the late-night and early morning hours--I wonder if it annoys dog walkers and the paper delivery person. (I did not know until last year that the light retards growth--it keeps the plants from growing too quickly and getting "leggy" as they do most of their growing in the dark.)

Last weekend (April 18 and 19) we put in the first of our outdoor seeds: Peas, beets, carrots, turnips. We were also delighted to discover that Kale is a perennial--we have Kale coming up in a row in the garden and a few clumps in the front of the house. In a week or two we can harvest and add all those healthy vitamins to our frozen soups.

We had one spring day on Thursday (about 60 degrees) and up to about 75 on Friday. But today it has been raining and the temperature has been dropping so now it is 40 degrees. We hope it doesn't go much lower--the forecast says no. The seeds got a good 5 days of soaking, two warm days, and now they got soaked again. If warmth comes again next weekend, we should see sprouts.