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Dropped 24 varieties of pepper seeds this week. See what varieties I’m growing in my new YT video.

We got some new solar lights for the backyard, gifted from @solagardenus, hung up over the weekend. They look great over the compost bins. No longer need a flashlight for those night time runs to the compost! PAULA10 will get you 10% off at solagarden.co

1 of these eggs is not like the other! We got our first two dozen eggs of the year by end of February. I thought we might get 2 dozen olives but she stopped laying again, then Charlie, our chocolate layer started up and then,we got a blue egg. More should be starting soon, though we have several older hens that don’t lay much if at all with our oldest being 8.5 years.

Baby basil (Thai, opal and genovese) started on 2/16, almost ready to separate and pot up. So much new growth in the growroom in 2 short weeks. A new growroom update was posted this week.

Can’t wait for the warm weather and blooms to return. These are a few from last season’s garden.

Got a new light to try out from #spiderfarmer just in time for the fig cuttings which will be going under it soon. An unboxing and install just went up.

Seed starting season has begun and I’ve posted my first growroom update video of the season. I show how the seeds and fig cuttings are doing and go over all the other seeds I plan to get started this month. These are the onions and microgreens I have under LED but there’s more in my update.

If you love hellebores, you’ll love the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival @nwfgs this year! We got a sneak peek of the display gardens this morning and they’re looking great! As you walk in the door you can’t miss this impressive ‘Florafantastic’ display that is full of a variety of hellebores and other spring flowers designed by Flower Growers of Puget Sound.

I told myself I wasn’t going to root very many fig cuttings this year but I couldn’t help myself to some free local cuttings. I’ve got 5 varieties rooting and still have 3 more that I won from @iv_organics on the way.

If you've never been to the @nwfgs Northwest Flower & Garden Festival or have gone before and want to go again, it is coming up next week at the Seattle Convention Center. This photo was taken of the @treelinedesignz garden display when we went to the show back in 2018.

Radicchio is extremely cold hardy. It has been covered in snow a few times last month and withstood single digit temps and is still alive and nearly ready to harvest. These varieties are rossa and castelfranco. Do you grow radicchio?

It’s fig cutting season! I am adding 3 varieties to my fig collection this year. Last year I added 8 so I cut back this year. 🤣 the @iv_organics fig cutting event this month may change that though. If you want to see how I rooted them this year and what varieties, I just posted a vid showing a step by step process.

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