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First sprouts in my winter sowing bins!

The winter sowing bins have started to sprout! Unfortuantely, none of the natives have sprouted yet, but, that is probably typical as they are adapted for this area and we still have snow on the ground.  First sprouts are the following: Poppies - multiple annual poppies have sprouted. Broccoli - most kinds of broccoli have sprouted, germination a bit spotty, but, they are still surrounded by snow, so no surprise there. Hyssopus officinalis - a whole bunch of tiny sprouts Peacock White Flowering Kale - multiple sprouts The bins are currently stacked on my porch to delay sprouting as we had a fake spring a couple weeks ago. It looks like after Wednesday we are above freezing fairly consistently, so at that point I will go ahead and spread the bins back out where they can get more even sunlight. 

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