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It looks like the greenhouse is rounding into shape from this image. But nothing of significance is visible here. The strawberries have not been received and planted in the bed just below the camera. The flowers in the first bed to the left have not come up. Those are just mint pots sitting on the edge. The onions in the next bed have not come up. The vegetables in the far (west) bed have not come up (except maybe some radish sprouts today). None of the ten coir baskets have been planted with Supertunias or strawberries.

There is progress, for sure. Some of the seeds on the heat mat have started to make an appearance. That would include marigolds, alyssum, and tomatoes. As mentioned, radishes or something is coming up in the salad area aka west bed. I culled half of the mint and some other redundant plants. I planted the geranium and some of the petunia cuttings that made it through winter in one big pot. We will see how they get along. The new heater from Amazon is on a slow boat from China, so I bought one at the local Ace and set it up as the primary. It's on the ground, left of the blue Lowe's bucket. I'll probably retire the one I bought last year (bottom of the image) since it does not seem to be pumping out much heat.

Meanwhile, back at the garage, I took cuttings of the six Supertunias as insurance against disaster. I'm already wondering if the Priscilla cutting is too small.

As I briefly alluded to a few days ago, it seems like I buy a bag of cactus and succulent planting mix every week at Ace Hardware. I just ordered 20 lbs. of pumice which I will use with my existing soil to make succulent mix. I don't know if it will be cheaper this way, but my medium-term goal is to convert the southwest (onion) bed to a hardy succulent bed, which would require replacing a large percentage of the soil with something like pumice. Longer term, perhaps convert the west bed also, leaving the southeast bed for conventional flowers and the east bed for strawberries. In the hardy succulent beds, I would plant sempervivums, sedums and delospermas. (Google "Fire Spinner Ice Plant" for an example of a colorful delosperma.) As I said a few days ago, anyone can plant tomatoes and peppers.