Competition: Doug vs. Walmart

Last year, Doug was very disappointed with our "starts". The plants we started in March were still so little come planting time.

And Walmart had some big, beautiful plants. He kept saying, "We should have started ours earlier! Why didn't we start them earlier?" The easy answer was that we followed the seed package directions. Eight weeks before planting time, we started our seeds.

This year, he is going to beat Walmart. It's a male pride thing. He started these in January, and they're already looking pretty respectable:

Broccoli and cauliflower in the foreground - my shasta daisies in the background

More broccoli and, in the back, a few peppers

Mmm, onions

And my chamomile lawn

Remember when I talked about the chamomile lawn? I decided to go for it. After all, the seeds only cost $10 - and I got a lot of them for that price. I started about half of them inside, even though they are a direct-sow according to the package directions. If they don't like being inside so much, then at least I have half of my seeds to start outside.

And here I thought we'd have all winter to just plan the garden, without actually doing anything.