It is still snowing. Usually the snow has melted in the valley by now, but we still have 6 inches on the ground. On the upside, about 6 feet fell at Stevens Pass in the last week or two.

One way or another, spring will get here. Many of our crops need an early start we can plant them out as well established plants once things have warmed up.

The top photo is a tray of tomatoes, below celery.

We start most of our seeds in soil blocks. Eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, celery, and some flowers in 3/4" mini blocks. They germinate very quickly. Once the cotyledons have emerged, we move them into 1.5" blocks.

Brassicas (cabbage, broccoli, pac choi, etc) start in the larger blocks, planning to get them into the soil in a month.