Trials and tribulations:
Indoor starter garden is kinda going bust.
To many plants , not enough natural light.
Artificial light is not cutting it.
Knowing this , the greenhouse must be built and ready to support starter plants next season.
I still haven't got my strawberry plants in yet. I don't know how long they can remain dormant in the packaging. They, the raspberries and blackberry bushes HAVE to be priority #1 Saturday. Took on another brake job on my daughters car Sunday . If uneventful, 2 hrs tops but most likely, my day will end up being shot as my luck sucks.
Cut some trees down last night and procrastinating about going out in the MUD and cold wind tonight to buck them up for another berry bed as well to line the remaining fence in the pig pen.

I'm quite sure at this point the MUD will never end

HT here are my thoughts. You started your plants too early indoors and they got too big maybe. They can only grow so much in small pack containers.  I have ran into that  a few times. I started mine 2 weeks ago and with the weather may be too early I have started berry bushes in 5 gallon buckets for a summer and transplanted them in the fall with good luck. As long as the strawberries are a LITTLE damp kept cool they should remain dormant.

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Here is mine and honestly I hold have waited until this weekend to plant them. I never have luck with peppers and tomato so I just buy the plants. These are all seeds I harvested from own non GMO offspring. The tallest are spaghetti squash, both yellow and orange variety. Also cukes, butternut, pumpkin, acorn , zukes, summer squash. Some dill also. I also plant seeds so I can get staggered harvest.   

Clint I'm sure your right. Mine been in soil for almost 2 months. Some did good early and some couldn't sustain.
If they had more space and light , I think it would work.
Got off my butt and bucked up those poplar.
Days are getting longer, temps only need a bump, not a heatwave.

I used to seed my plants 6-8 weeks before the last frost which traditionally is May 15 in my area.  I've had marginal success with my plants indoors as they get too leggy.  I also learned from the good people at the Cornell Cooperative Extension that squash plants, pumpkin and zucchini, etc are susceptible to a moth larval infestation if planted before mid June.  Plants with the infestation will look healthy but start to wilt and die once they set flowers and fruit. 
Have you ever noticed how healthy the plants are from the fruits and seeds you tilled under from the previous years plants?  It's for good reason.  Nature has it's timetable and man has his, man's isn't always the best.    

I've always bought my plants locally, not so much home centers. They grow from seed. Only difference I can see is they have an established green, grow house.
I'm learning

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THE ROCK IS OUT. I had to resort to putting the ho on the tractor and that made short wok of it.  I made 2 pig troughs today and will get (sausage) Link later today.

We got our pig today, Amish said it was a bad year with big demand. We go the last one at $80.

That's strange Clint. It seems they are everywhere cheap here right now. I know of a few more to be had for 60 and less but I'm all good myself. Next year I probably can't buy 1 .
Kicked butt today here. Visited my local dirt farmer and filled those crates, after I visited my local rock quarry to line the bottoms first.
All berries are planted, the cold frame box is in test on veggies tonight. Do or they don't.
Got the boat serviced and running.
Major score on 2 huge red oak trees I was told I could have. Tomorrow's project is to put them on the ground.
After all that , wife took me out to the oldest running restaurant in our county. They always have fresh local catch on special. Of course it's shad roe, I'm sure next week will be striped bass and so on.
A good days work . Glad you got that Rock out . I wish I had a tractor 😀