Well, I opened my bag of potatoes to cook for dinner and look what I found. They had been in the cold garage but with the temps so low I had brought them into the pantry. I guess they decided it was time to start growing.
I cut them into sections to allow the cut to dry for two days while I figured out what the heck to do with them.
I was able to save some of the ends without eyes to make enough fried potatoes for hubby's dinner that night.
He had some leftover meatloaf with broccoli and coleslaw. I had salad and a small piece of meatloaf to stay with my #keto diet.
Two days later, I decided to grab two growbags from the potting shed and put the bags inside bins in the garage.
Lately the average temperature in the garage is hovering around 40°F. so that should slow them down somewhat.
I watered the soil slightly and now we shall see what happens. Since they are planted in the totes, we can move them easily to the greenhouse without disturbing the roots too much.
Seed Organizing
If you need inspiration, go follow Pam 
So, I was inspired to try and estimate when to plant my seeds with a last frost date of April 20th for my zone 6b here in western, New York. I took two separate mornings to re-organize my seeds and write the week to sow the seeds. I had two years of scribbled notes that made absolutely no sense but did my best.
Then I remembered that I had a guide for seeding vegetables and that made it a bit easier to figure out which week to put on the seed containers.
Now perhaps I won't have to try and figure when to sow them every single year. I plan to chart how well each one does to see if I did them too early or too late. See, Pam, I'm following your good example to make life a little less scattered for myself.
Seed Starting
Herbs
Today, I started filling some trays of different depths to accommodate different varieties I need to start. This is a shallow that works well for shallow rooted plants. I did parsley, cilantro, marjoram, rosemary, feverfew, basil, and more that I can't recall off hand. The tray has 72 cells, and I planted 6 cells for each herb.
Flowers
I finally got the snapdragons, verbena, lobelia and anise done in the shallow trays too.
Salvia
This tray also has 72 cells, but it is twice as deep as the shallow one. I sowed 24 cells of Blue Salvia, Red Border Salvia, and Red Salvia for the Hummingbirds. I always put 2-3 seeds in each sell to ensure I get germination. I have been saving my own seeds every year for 20+ years, and it has saved me a ton of money.
Hot Peppers
This is 3" deep tray has 50 cells which I use to sow peppers, tomatoes, and brassicas in. Today, I concentrated on getting the Hot Peppers done: Citrus Jalapenos, Large Jalapeno, Sweet and Hot Hungarian, Cayenne, Pepperoncini, Poblano, and Habanero.
These are some of the seeds that I saved from last year's harvest, dried them fully, and packaged them for this year.
I had sown lettuce seeds that were too old and they did not germinate, so I pulled the tray and replanted some new seeds that I had ordered. I put a piece of foil over the tray to keep the seed dark; we shall see if this helps.
You can see on the far-right side of the tray that the Asian greens came up fine, so I just reused the tray for now.
Tomorrow is another day and I was too tired to keep going so these will get sown later. I like to grow my spinach in tower gardens, and they get planted out in the greenhouse as soon as it stays above freezing. For now, the trays are in my furnace room under lights. By the time they are large enough to transplant, the greenhouse should be good to go if all the nor eastern storms stop occurring. That's a wrap for the end of February's #gardenjournal update and March is just around the corner.
