Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 1 Entries. Monday, April 6 View Page I'm on Day 7 since I planted my AG seeds into their peat pots! It took almost five days for them to sprout out of the soil but they finally emerged! To note, I decided not to file these and I placed them 1 inch into the soil in the peat pot, the soil I used is Miracle Grow Seedling Starter mix. The leaves look a little curled on the edges but I'm hoping that it's because they just emerged and haven't completely unfurled yet. I had them on a warming pad but removed it as soon as the first seedlings sprouted and applied their UV light, which I make sure to turn off every night and back on the next morning when I'm sure it's been off for at least 8 hours, so I don't think they're cooked or stressed. I've never grown something from seeds like this before so I'm worried about every little thing, but I plan to plant backup seeds next week after I transplant these. My original plan, when I decided I wanted to grow a giant pumpkin last year, was the spend the winter prepping the soil and getting supplies, but something else ended up taking all of my time, energy and money over the course of the winter. A runaway chicken found its way into our yard a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving and since we couldn't find where she came from, no one claimed her and no one else would take her in, we decided to keep her and thus we became chicken people. You can't just have one chicken, you have to have a flock, so all our time and energy went into building a new flock for this newly adopted yard chicken, my pumpkin growing quest took a backseat for a while and before I knew it, it was already April and I hadn't even tilled my patch, let alone started my seeds. Thankfully I had already ordered the seeds and starting supplies last year so I at least was ready to start those, but I completely forgot that I had planned on transplanting the seedlings around Easter weekend and it was one week until Easter when I realized I hadn't planted the seeds yet. Good thing I didn't, though, because we had a very, unseasonably chilly Easter weekend. It would not have been a good weekend to plant. I'm hoping to begin transplanting next weekend (if the seedlings are ready) when the highs will be back into the 80s and the lows in the high 50s, low 60s. It also poured down rain on Saturday night, so it just wouldn't have been a good time all around. Needless to say, we did have to spend this weekend getting the patch allocated and prepared, so we got a tiller and tilled down the patch area 6 inches deep. The area I have set aside is roughly 15' x 30' so I think it'll be plenty big enough for my two plants and it should definitely be big enough when I cull it down to one plant and begin (hopefully) the giant pumpkin process. We went to the store to get some fertilizer to mix and got some Black Kow brand manure fertilizer that is thankfully already composted down and ready to plant in. We only got 8 bags, though, so we were only able to cover the two spots I plan to put my hill