My jaw dropped — again — when I looked at my mini greenhouse tonight. Just four days after planting four kinds of tomatoes, lettuce, pumpkins and three types of zinnias, sprouts are showing in 52 of the 72 peat pellets.

Lettuce is the only crop that hasn’t shown itself at all yet. Zinnias, on the other hand, are up in all 24 of the pellets they were planted in. It’s what I’m calling seed sprouting shock and awe. And I am experiencing both!