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I decided to try soil blocking this year.  In November I bought my soil blocker and watched a ton of youtube videos on soil mixtures.  I ordered my coconut coir, got my potting soil and vermiculite, ordered enough higher quality 1020 trays, got a new grow light setup that fits in a place at our rental house and started making plant markers. I impatiently waited until 8 weeks before our last frost.  And then it was on.  And I went admittedly a little overboard, but frankly, I did not expect the germination rates to be as high as they were.  Many of my seeds are at least 3-4 years old, this is the first garden that I've started from seed for a few years due to our cross country move.  But here we are!  And knowing that I want to put up more tomato sauce this year, in addition to sharing the garden with friends, and that we will have construction workers and subcontractors building and working on our new house all summer and fall has me feeling a little more confident in regards to the number of tomatoes and peppers we're going to be growing, although I do have to prep a lot more garden space than I originally intended to.  But here is where I am smugly showing you guys my organization, because this is far enough out of my frantic disorganization that I want to share how pretty it is.  I made maps for all of my trays.  All trays were labeled with letters on the front in paint pen.  
We have peppers, and my misc tray.  We did have a few failures to germinate, so I now know what seeds are bad and should be thrown out (savoy cabbage, cayenne peppers, grey zucchini)
 

And tomatoes, my precious.  We moved from the PNW, so tomato selection had to be ruthless, anything over 80 days was a huge gamble.  Here in Kentucky it seems basically anything will grow, so I just ordered an assortment of beefsteaks from someone on ebay and I'm ready to try growing all the weirdsies.
 
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Like you, I had moved and not started a garden from seed for too long and many of my seeds just didn't germinate last year, so I did a big purge that I forgot about and was surprised how few seeds I had this year.
I started some of the new pepper and tomato seeds I did buy last year and I'm just not going to grow the rest from seed... because I'm much more focused on native landscaping plants so I won't have any room on my shelf soon.
I do have a trade situation worked out with another grower who does a ton of both natives and garden annuals. So I'll get the rest that way. The natives are doing well. Just saw some sprouts in my containers that went through a 2 month cold/moist stratification. The hard part is culling, but you can't keep every sprout!


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I decided to cut back on the amount of seedlings I grew this year and set a limit of 6-12 tomato and pepper plants per variety. Problem is I added more varieties so I still have an overabundance. My parents will take probably a third of the plants and I'll distribute what I can't use.  Used the same philosophy on the brassicas too and have a manageable amount this year.
 
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My dozens of hot pepper plants have been transplanted… everything is growing rapidly. Only thing I am having trouble with is tobacco. It’s very finicky. Not sure how South Florida’s climate affects certain varietals.

After 2 months I got my first Ethiopian coffee seed to sprout. A couple rare Chinese herbs died, I have to resow. My American medicinal herbs are now growing well… kitchen herbs transplanted.

All in all nothing to complain about! Just some mistakes.
 
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Jeff, have you seen what David the Good has had to say about tobacco? He's got a lot of content in a few different places, but his site brings a lot of it together and you should be able to figure it out from there. https://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/growing-tobacco-again/
Some involves growing tobacco in other places, but he's done a lot of work in Florida.
 
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My grand lavish plans to have my season my way this year ,have failed , i was going to start off a small selection of seeds in my new tunnel ordered in feb but took ages to arrive ---fuel hikes ,no drivers ,further costs and delaysf, then a local shortage of some basic materials and now the weather and wind have delayed further progress .  Only the base and end panels plus framework are up so no further potting up was  going to happen , but then my order of french vinyard peach pits arrived and a bonus of some free walnut s with it . The idea was to just pot them up and place outside for the rest of the season to stratify or germinate if luck was onside, i soaked the walnuts in water for 2 days --all failed the float/sink test--and then ignored them for a few days ,they all germinated on the kitchen window sill--now in pots outside to carry on growing. The peach pits i decided to experiment with the method  of cracking open in a vice ---a controlled squeeze --extract the pip and soaked in water for a day ,then gently peeled away the brown outer skin layer, placed them i a little dimsum parcel of tissue paper---paced into a plastic lunchbox---no lid ---into a cubboard in the kitchen. These sprouted after 3 days and have come along now to about half inch of root, when leaves show they will be potted up for a life destined in the tunnel ---eventually
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