While I'm sowing seeds, I'm also listening to the late, great Stuart McLean. His Vinyl Cafe stories, which I have often heard while driving or baking, provide an air of fictionality to the process. For what is fiction but dreams transformed into words? And what is a garden, but dirt and seeds and water and light transformed by hope?

Plants: Planted 6 cells of Moonflowers (Belle Blanche Datura), but will surely sow more since I love the way they smell at night. They always remind me of the moon garden M showed me on one of our first dates.

I sowed 12 red multibloom Geraniums (Pelargonium Hortorum) and 12 white multibloom Geraniums (Pelargonium Hortorum). They're supposed to be difficult to grow from seed, yet I am undaunted. If they take, I'm sure they will hold pride of place in the white urns on the front porch.

In larger pots, I planted Night-Scented Stock (Matthiola Longipetala). I had no luck with these wee purple flowers last year; perhaps this year they will take. I also sowed Crocus (Jeanne D'Arc) in 6 small pots and the Benjamin Franklin Peonies (Peony Lactifora) in 2 larger pots.

In the big brown pot, I went for the lasagna method, planting lilac and white Cum Laude tulips (Tulipa Cum Laude), red Abba tulips (Tulipa alpina) and white Mount Tacoma tulips (Tulipa Mount Tacoma). I've only seen this method on Youtube; here's hoping it works in real life.

Lastly, I planted 8 cells of Roma tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) for us and 10 cells of Catnip (Nepeta cataria) for the girls. Even though catnip grows fast, I think I'll do a few more later for luck.

Well, it's time to start the garden again. Past time, really. I had intended to begin a bunch of seedlings in soil on March 15th and April 1st, yet it's already April 7th and I'm just getting around to it. Yes, the desire's been there, as well as the dream of future flowers and crops. But between the job search and the house hunt, three mass shootings in the past two weeks and, of course, the global pandemic, I just didn't have the energy to drag everything into the basement and start.

Today -- after some procrastination -- I gave it a go. Plugged in the new mini-vac and cleared away the debris from last year. I know I should've done it last fall, ah well, it's mostly gone now.

I reset the glow lights, prepped the starting soil, filled the new water mister and the old blue watering can and focused on the March 15th seeds.

Plants: Sowed 9 cells with English True Lavender (Lavendula angustifolia) and 9 cells with Johnny Jump Ups (Viola x williamsiana).

I also planted 9 cells with Purple Beauty Sweet Peppers (Capsicum annuum) and 9 more with California Wonder 300 Sweet Peppers (Capsicum annuum). Both trays are now under the empty Aerogarden grow lights, waiting for germination. 

In a small jar of warm water, I'm prepping 12 seeds of Moonflowers (Belle blanche datura). Those will head into pots tomorrow.

On a damp paper towel, I've sown 12 Red Multibloom Geraniums (Pelargonium hortorum) and 12 White Multibloom Geraniums (Pelargonium hortorum), which are now chilling in the fridge. I'll pop 'em into some dirt tomorrow.
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I ran out of time to do more, but hopefully, I'll sow the flowers and the catnip and the tomatoes next.