Mission Accomplished

I am officially done planting seeds...YAY!!! The final tally is about 550. There would have been more, but some plants (such as my beloved Monkey Flower pictured below) like to make the smallest seeds possible.

Just to give you an idea, here is a picture of a package containing 50-60 Monkey Flower seeds: next to the package are three hollyhock seeds, one of which is bigger than all 50 of the other seeds.

So how do you plant such small seeds you say. Well I will tell you. Using my handy dandy tweezers I grab about 3 little brown specs at a time and shove the tweezers into the dirt hoping that at least one will make it where it needs to be and grow into a plant. Out of 50 Monkey Flower seeds I got a whopping 18 pods planted and if I am lucky I will get about a dozen seedlings (cross your fingers for more). Aparently I need to start planting by microscope. By the end of the week I should be getting at least some Alyssum seedlings, maybe a little something more if I am lucky. Until then I bid you adieu.