Hardening off started today! Shade only, ~+5 to +8

Today I finally started hardening off!  Everything except the peppers and stevia.

So, here's what's getting hardened:

- broccoli

- parsley

- celery

- chard

- kale

- onions

- lettuce

- forget-me-nots

- coreopsis

(I think that's it?)

Today was after work, so it was all shade, and it was cool but above zero, somewhere around +5 to +8.  They were out for about 1 hour and 15 minutes.

The next couple of days will be too cold, and a couple of days next week look to be too cold, but other than that these babies are going to get used to outside (gradually, of course).

Bad weather -- delayed in starting to harden off -- no room left under lights!!

Argh, the three main shelves are completely full so I desperately want to start hardening things off so that there will be space next week when the next batch of seed-starting is due.

I'm hopeful that the weather will cooperate this week, to get started.  But first, I want to finish placing the chicken wire, to hopefully be sure that the local rabbit(s) can't come in and have a feast!

Last year's potatoes are sprouting (most of them)

I'll use them to grow some of this year's potatoes.

Thawed peppers great in hash browns!

This worked great!  Definitely do again!

Thawed the peppers that had been frozen raw/whole last year -- 2 green peppers, and several banana/hot peppers.  Thawed them by putting them in a bowl of hot water.  They thawed quickly.

Then sliced them open, removed the seeds, and squeezed them to get most of the liquid out.  Then chopped them and put them in to cook with the hash browns.  

Great!

Zero space available in shelves unless use top-most ceiling level ---- must get things hardened before April seed-starting!!!

Topped hot peppers (the bigger ones) and accidentally one hungarian sweet pepper; and pruned biggest stevia

Uppotted the bigger broccoli -- they're too big with 2 months before can plant at GA!!!

Argh, 2 more months of growth at home before they can go out at GA!!!  

Started lettuce: romaine, BSS, and ruby

Direct in big communal "pot".

Started sweet bell peppers, coreopsis, and forget-me-not

The bell peppers are all California Wonder -- some from my old tin foil set, some newer.

The coreopsis are all from the seeds I collected last year from a GA.

Forget-me-not are all from 2021.