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We started a bunch of seeds last night. One of the seed flats (104 cells) is just cactus, I harvested those seeds when I was in Arizona. I only need 6 cactus for my plan for a rock garden but have heard they are very difficult to germinate so 2-3 seeds per cell. I have never had cactus and really no clue about growing/germinating them other than what I've read so we will see. If I end up with more cactus than I need then the wife will gift them and/or I will make a post to give them away.

I also started 20+ citrus seeds; lime, tangerine and lemon. Hoping they will germinate as I want 5 or so trees at the house.

Another 50 or so flower seeds. Since we have properly fenced and gated in 1/2 our front yard and side yard we have a bunch of nice areas for flowers. The wife has already started a ton of plants and it is really looking nice. We just had to fence off the area as the big dogs can be really destructive, our little dogs are allowed out there and really enjoy it.

The rest of the seed starting is veggies; mostly cherry tomatoes, eggplant, okra, cucumbers, melons and some ghost peppers. I only purchased 10 ghost pepper seeds and am excited to see how many we can germinate. Personally I love growing peppers, tomatoes and okra...those are just the plants I seem to do best with and ones I end up eating more that anything else. We do really well with peppers and will probably have to remove some plants we have currently to fit in the ghost peppers.

If things work out we will have more veggie seedlings than we can use in our small areas so the wife will gift them to friends or send them to family in the village to grow out.

We used a 50/50 mix of vermicompost and rice hulls as our seed starting mix. First time using the rice hulls so hopefully it works well for seed starting. We have had great results using vermicompost as a soil amendment in the past so thinking the seed starting mix should work out.

Shawn