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Came home yesterday and started cleaning up the grow room that had turned into an automation gadget room and catchall for misc stuff.

We're having a warm spell as we roll into February, which tends to make one think about gardening.

Time flies as they say. My earliest date for starting cold weather crops is Feb 11th. That's a week away. 😲

I need to get my mini grow tent cover put back on and get the heat mats and lights put back in place. Then there's no reason I can't start a couple of things. Of course I need to finish one big thing. The high tunnel.

I've just about recovered financially from having to buy a truck so adding wind speed and direction to the above will be coming soon. Hey I can get those seed trays that I had in my cart a month ago. Crud! Looks like they're out of stock on some already.

The dirt road has about recovered from rain/snow/freeze/thaw so I'll be making a few trips for water today. I've got the two new 275 gal IBC tanks to fill using the regular tank on the trailer that will also get refilled as the final trip. Need to pick up 2-3 more IBC tanks. I want one on each corner of the tunnel, plus one up here at the front yard garden. Wouldn't hurt to have one just for the goats either.

Break's over. Get back to work.

Must be a sign from the Heavens! ;)

Not only getting the new Field & Forest catalog but on doing more cleanup in the grow room this morning, I just found last year's catalog so it just might be a sign.

Found my mouse traps which is a good thing because the little barstid chewed through my temp/humidity sensor wire and the heat mat controller wire.

Had our new toaster/convection oven sitting on a mini greenhouse shelf so I needed to move it somewhere else. I made a space by pulling the old deep fryer off the counter. We haven't used it since we got the air fryer so it's time for it to go.

Wasn't the plan but Spring cleaning has begun.

I started some seed this week.

I did the onions, lavender, and rosemary. Some of them take a long time to germinate so I figured I would get them in so they might be coming up by the end of the month. The grow lights are ready to go.

The onions I wanted a good start on because I’d like them a little more mature when I put them in. I’d like a better survival rate for them and figure that if the plants are a little bigger, they’d do better. I tried to not sow them very thickly either. Sowing them too densely seems to keep them small.