progress...

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The seedlings are coming along nicely. The tomatoes have grown past their first leaves and seem to be doing quite well. Same for the basil and the flower plants (echinacea and gaillardia in particular).

I planted some tritoma (red hot poker), and after several weeks of nothing, I'm seeing what look like thin shoots of grass coming up. I checked online and it turns out that tritoma might be pretty hard to grow from seed. We'll see how it goes later on.

Here are the tomato plants all-together. I love how their cute fuzzy stalks catch the light:



Sigh. And here are the basil plants. They've just started getting their true (or second) leaves:



Oh, and I tried putting together the greenhouse, but it turns out that it's impossible to put together. Everything worked out fine until I tried to put on the roof, and then I ran into a physical impossibility. Probably the only way to do it would have been massive amounts of silicone and/or duct tape:



So I called greenhouses.com and they gave me a refund and were really cool about it! I ended up buying a larger greenhouse instead, and it's on its way in a week or two. Yay! So excited.