Seed Starting in the Garden Shed

This is the week to start the first set of vegetable seedlings--at least by my calculations. If I start my tomatoes and peppers inside now, I should be able to move the flats out to the garden shed by mid-April or so. While there's no heat in the garden shed, the south-facing greenhouse windows warm it pretty well during the day. The gamble, of course, is whether the shed will maintain enough warmth through the night.

I picked up eight packets of Burpee seed: Crispy Hybrid and Jalapeno peppers; Roma, Salad Choice, Big Boy, and Fourth of July tomatoes; and some Black-Seeded Simpson lettuce and a Mescalun salad mix. It'll start the tomatoes and peppers inside. The lettuce will go straight into the ground (although I have successfully grown tubs of lettuce in the garden shed).

Once I get this first round of seeds started, I'll need to get off my duff and clear all the clutter off the shed's potting shelf. There's lots of room for the flats on the potting shelf, so it's just a question of getting rid of the junk that's currently in the way.

Shed storage space is always at a premium ... :)