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It's time for pepper project 2016!

For my birthday this year, my parents (well, my mom) bought me a weird little seed starter kit thingy. The idea is that you soak these discs of dried peat until they expand into cylinders, plant your seeds in the little pre-dug divots, and then stick everything into the plastic 'greenhouse' to sprout. The cover presumably helps keep both moisture and heat in while being mostly permeable to sunlight.

I figured I'd use half the discs this year and save the other eighteen for next year if the experiment proves a success. The unused ones are in a tupperware container in one of my kitchen cupboards, because why not.

I meant to get my seeds started a few weeks ago, but life kept happening at me and also acquiring a bag of potting soil (for eventual transplanting) ended up way more logistically annoying than I'd expected. Anyway, I finally planted eighteen seeds early in the morning of Sunday 3/27/16, and now I have a funny square of plastic with these silly little brown cylinders sitting on my kitchen table by the western windows. Presumably in a couple weeks at least some of the seeds will sprout. *crosses fingers, hopes for the best*

instructions for plastic sprouting container

eighteen peat cylinders, uncovered

eighteen peat cylinders, covered


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