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Well, for some strange and inexplicable reason I am starting veggie seeds again. I'm trying the same tomatoes and bell peppers I had last year without the hanging basket tomato, because I'm tired of fighting the squirrels for the plants. I have some of the 'flowers' that Craig bought me for Valentine's Day started too, the cup and saucer vine and sweet peas for the hanging basket that the squirrels always dug the tomatoes out of. And because I can't help myself, I'm trying to grow living stones and succulent plants from seed again. I have some passion flower seeds soaking right now and some double purple datura that I'll be trying to grow for the containers on the back porch. I'm using the two big pots that the ancient jade plant had been in for tomatoes which frees up at least two of those tomato pots for the cup and saucer vine, which I hope will be growing along the rock wall of the storage room this summer. The rest of it will be direct sown into the flower boxes (mini butterhead lettuce, mini pumpkins, peas) and raised bed (beans, carrots). I'm going to try the Inspire melon again, the two that I got off of it after it cooled down last summer were really good, so hopefully the Farmer's Almanac is correct (it was about this winter) and we'll have a mild summer for growing a plethora of veggies. (Yes I know what a plethora is) I'm going to do the herbs in the grill again, but instead of putting poppies in there, I'll be putting poppies in the raised bed to attract pollinators and hopefully get some poppy seeds for baking. And if the neighbors don't spray any herbicides again this year and the weather gods are kind, I hope to have beautiful, non warped and non stunted plants producing grocery store quality food. One of these years that gosh darn degree will work in my favor. Not like y'all cared, but there ya go.