BikeWalkBakeBarb: Seed Snail 'Speriment: Episode 2

Episode 2 will be short and sweet: Seedlings! Eight days by the calendar after the planting April 28, although that was an evening project so it's more like 7-1/2 days.

The morning of May 6 as I misted the coils I spotted three tender stems still bent over, tops buried.

Photo looking down from above at a coil of brown paper. It holds brown soil with white flecks. A green shoot, bent over with its top still in the oil, and two smaller ones barely showing above the soil line. A small white plastic stake with the words Genovese Zucchini stands in the soil.

By the end of the day the biggest of the three had lifted its leaves to the air.

Photo looking down at an angle from above at a coil of brown paper. It holds brown soil with white flecks. A tiny green shoot stands with two leaves. Another small shoot is bent over, top still in the soil. A smaller third one is also still bent over. A small white plastic stake with the words Genovese Zucchini stands in the soil.

By the next morning, May 7, those leaves stood taller, a second one had freed its top, and the first green bent-over stem appeared in the golden straightneck summer squash.

Photo from above of two coils of brown paper holding potting mix. At left, two leaves on a stem stand fully open. Next to that, a smaller set of leaves, partially open on another plant. A third stem appears bent over above the soil line. At right, in a second coil, a small stem is visible above the soil line with its head still buried in the potting mix.

By the evening of May 7 that first golden summer squash had stuck its leaves up in the air although they're still a bit bent over, a second was visible, the Mortgage Lifter tomatoes had sent up a couple of tiny threadlike stems, and the Black Like Tula tomatoes had the tiniest hint of green at one spot. Time to capture this for posterity. This is happening!