WS: All jugs have germinated except the lupins

 No sign of the lupins, but all other WS jugs have had germination now.  (with variable rates)

Lupins still haven't sprouted yet

 ^^^

No sign yet of celery, parsley (either kind), or lupin

Lupins moved from bowl of water into paper towel baggie

 ^^^

Lupins soaking for 24 hours

 Started the burgundy two-tone lupin seeds I collected from BH last year by putting them to soak for a day.  My first time trying lupins indoors from seed but it seems they should soak for a day first.

Lupin aphid update: none found this morning

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Lupin aphid removal - day 1

For fear of this infestation spreading to the vegetables, I removed as many as possible today.  Dish soap and water, several applications.  Rinsed off later with hose.  Horrible.  Will monitor in future days.

If this happens again next year, I will remove all lupins.

The original lupin plant up against the house looks awful, but I think it will come back.

The next biggest one looks healthy and alive (though less so after today's treatment).

The other smaller ones look fine.

Lupin plant smothered in green aphids!! Another lupin dried out, dying?

Noticed today while watering, that the nice-looking lupin along the front edge of the front bed is infested with aphids! Oh no!!!

I was watering because the grandmother lupin up against the house looks like it's dying.  Not sure if because of lack of water (hopefully, and hopefully it can be saved), or, if maybe the aphids started there and then moved on?

General update

General update:

All of the current vermiculite pots have sprouted now, although not the best germination rate overall.

Celery:  Several have appeared, so I should be good now for celery

Parsley:  Two from the original sowing are now in soil and look to be doing ok.  Two from the second sowing have appeared, but are still tiny and look very wimpy.  Haven't repotted them yet.  Time will tell.

Onions:  Lots of them, looking great, which I potted into soil about a week ago.  Some I put into smaller containers, and some I put four into a single container, so it will be interesting to see if they all do well.

Lupins:  Only one of the lupins sprouted, and is looking good.  (It was sowed in soil, so hasn't been repotted.)

Tuberous begonias:  The one that sprouted (the pink one, sigh) looks great -- hope it will slow down its growth though!  I just now dug into the other tuberous begonia, thinking it was a dud, but found a sprout growth thing.  So, covered it back up.  Hopefully it will turn into something, especially as I prefer the yellow.

Started celery, parsley, onions, lupins

Started these today:

- celery ("Tall Utah Improved" from foil pack)

- parsley ("Single Hardy Italian" - heirloom)

- onions (collected from last year's onions!)

- lupins (collected from last year's lupins) (an experiment)

All are in vermiculite, scattered seeds, except the lupins, which are in soil, two each in a little pot.  All in a mini "greenhouse" on the heated mat.

Lupins sowed outside

Lupins (5 seeds in each of four spots) sowed outside in the front bed, with compost, not presoaked.

(The ones I tried to germinate in baggie a few weeks ago didn't do anything.)

Lupins sowed in fridge baggie

"sowed" the lupin seeds saved from last year's plant, on moist paper towel placed in a baggie in the fridge.  Another experiment...