Baby plants all around

Although 90% of seedlings have been planted and are already grown enough to be considered adult plants, there are still a bunch of baby plants all around my garden and the yard. At this time of the season, I rarely have so many small plants in my garden. Usually, I'd start sowing around March and most of the plants would get big. This year, as I mentioned a million times, is different. This year I didn't plan enough plants for my garden, so I had to sow more than initially planned, and now I have lots of baby plants around. Also, I've sown some perennial flowers that are just germinating so there are more baby plants to take care of.

This time of the season is very moody, with lots of showers and temperature jumps and drops and it's hard to grow baby plants in the garden, but as I said, this year is completely different and baby plants are just booming. Temperatures above 30°C(86°F) are speeding the germination process. Since the soil has not heated up fully yet, there's no danger for the small plants to overheat. The cold period lasted a really long time this year, and the soil temperature in the shaded parts of the garden is barely reaching 20°C (68°F). This is why most of the veggies I've sown during the last 10 days are already out and growing, except for the parsley, which takes ages to germinate.

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