Early Indoor Starts

We live on a peninsula jutting out into a lake in the Carolinas - if you follow the guidelines on the back of the most typical plants you'd want in your garden in this part of the country we're right on the line between zones 7 & 8, and we're right in between the mountains and the coast.

In terms of planting, we started 72 plants indoors in one of the starter kits from Lowe's. I've had poor success with these before, but if it gets us an early harvest it is a cheap investment. We started Prudens Purple Tomatoes, Purple Tomatillos, Cukes, yellow squash, zucchini, and red onions on February 5th, 2011. The vast majority will be ready for transplanting in 6 to 8 weeks, right in front of their typical outdoor planting period.

I'm not sure how the big squash seeds are going to develop, but I only did 6 of each variety so it should at least be interesting. If they grow too fast I'm going to remove the little cups around the soil in the starter kid and put them in a flower box for a few weeks before transplanting them again outside.