All sounds great. Question: Do you lay the tape flat? Is the tape folded over with the seed inside? Do the roots go through the lower layer to get to soil, or do they fan out growing between the two layers? Does this slow them down if they are laying on top of a paper layer? How about the shout going up. If there is a paper layer over the top of the seed, can the new shout push up through this layer of paper, or do they go sideways looking for a chance to go up freely? As they push up do they push the paper up on top of the shout? It seems that if the seeds are between two layers of paper, it would change their growth shape.

I use toilet paper - each square is 4" so I use say 6 squares for a 2 foot row - fold it in half longways put a tiny dot of Elmer's glue on the bottom half, a couple of seeds, and fold it back over so it kind of glues together, spacing the seeds the proper distance apart. It worked great especially for my carrots since their seeds are so tiny. I sowed some seeds without using seed tape and fewer seeds germinated, and I suspect some got washed away when I watered... I just made more seed tape for my carrots the other day. The toilet paper goes away eventually.

Oh geesh... I have a whole bunch harvested from last fall. I already have a HUGE pot ghetto, with no bed ready to plant. BUT... I don't think I can help myself! I have to start some of my seeds!! **For sure planting: Toothy Grin x Red Friday (bought) Unvanquished x Lucid Moment Ballerina Beautiful x Blue Hippo Velvet Eyes x Blue Hippo G.W. Painted Pony x Bluegrass Music G.W. Painted Pony x Heaven's Declaring (Seedling)Popping Pink Pizzaz x Blue Hippo Unvanquished x Bluegrass Music South Seas seedling x Magnificent Magpie (gift) Inquire Within Seedling x English Lavender (bought) Caribbean Twilight Time x G.W. Painted Pony Vino Brillante x Lucid Moment Pink Flirt x Emma Tomlinson McHugh Popcorn Pete x Awesome Artist Garden Greeting x Heaven's Declaring Hi Ho Silver x Bluegrass Music Crystal Sea x Topgun Kathy Arthur **I guess I have to plant these, they are sprouting in the bag: West Coast Blues x Clown's Cabaret Velvet Eyes x Mildred Mitchell How Sweet It Is x Create Your Dream Neusa Gergmann x Barn Owl Palladian Pink x Blue Hippo (these are super long rooted already!) Seedling 002 x Heavens Declaring (has leaves sprouting in the bag!) Spacecoast Surprise Purple x Clowns Cabaret Create Your Dream x Heaven's Declaring West Coast Blues x Blue Hippo OH MAN! I am in trouble... where to put all of these??? And that is only perhaps 10% of what I have. Hmm... maybe time to sell seeds! :o)

I got up around 8am today and started the first of two loads of laundry, plus washed DD's competiton gym leotard separately. Then I started on her hair do for the meet today. Whew! That is an accomplishment! It's all about the hair, ya know. Did this tricky little spider-web thing that's become popular, then back in a ponytail, then the ponytail curled into spirals. Took about 15 tiny little clear elastics and a dozen little foam curlers, a handful of hair gel and a couple dozen squirts of hairspray. And over an hour of my time. ;o) That was extra special, usually I give it a really good ponytail, but very rarely go that extreme. I was feeling generous, and she asked so nicely. ;o) Here's the idea. This was taken tonight, after the meet, after 1000 tugs on the ponytail and lots of tumbling loosened the curls (and it doesn't hold curls very well, either). Honest, it was tight curls. Next time I'll remember to take the pic before the meet. While that set, and the laundry was drying, I cleaned out the van and went up for an oil change and the emmissions test. Then back home, made lunch for the family, showered and changed myself. Then we drove an hour to the gymnastics meet. Did that, had dinner, got back around 9pm DD accomplished some good scores! She had a great meet and finishsed first place all around in her age group and session. That is a first for her, so it was very exciting. She has been struggling with bars for a couple months, but today also finished first on bars, another first. And she's going to leave her hair like that for a couple days. ;o) Took me too long to take it back out already. I am not skilled with it, I have to compensate by taking my time and concentrating. I even tell her not to talk to me while I'm working on it, which is *really* hard for her. LOL! BTW, DD is 9. Now I'm going to crawl into bed with a book. Tomorrow is another day, and I have other tasks that have been waiting all week. Like getting caught up on my online class.