Homesteading challenge, and potted plants awaiting warm nights!

I'm writing this article partly because @kiaraantonoviche is hosting a challenge and partly because I love dirt, and plants, and the thought of warm weather and sunshine and being outside all day! The timing couldn't have been more perfect, I got my seeds in not 2 days ago and saw this challenge last night!

I was really hoping to get some scrap wood together and build some wooden planting pots like @sagescrub https://steemit.com/homesteading/@sagescrub/how-to-wooden-flats-for-seed-propagation
This didn't work out however as I can barely keep my head on straight with a 3 year old and 18 month old underfoot. so I dug out my plastic pots from last year, plunked my soil in, and now do my best to protect them from curious little fingers that love dirt of any kind!
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I've got 9 brandy wine tomatoes, 9 Rutgers, Hungarian hot peppers, cayenne peppers, Sumter pickling cukes, zucchini, red cabbage,broccoli, cauliflower, celery, cantaloupe, watermelonAND I'm trying my hand at tobacco this summer thanks to @wwf and @carey-page for the seeds. They are very delicate and I'm carefully misting them everyday.

Yes that is about 1/2 a foot of snow you can see outside still. These babies won't be transplanted until mid-late may in our frigid part of the world. I will be direct sowing my kale, shard, onions, lettuce, leeks, and other cold lovers in early May. If our root cellar is complete by midsummer i should have plenty of room for seed saving and fermentation projects for harvest! Ok I'm getting ahead of myself, but it's so EXCITING!

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