After a few weeks in the cooler, the crates began to sprout, and it was time to move the first batch into the basement. We carried a few heavy crates down the hill to our house before deciding the truck would make the job much easier. After setting up about tables, we set up many, many grow lights from the complex maze of pipes and ceiling joists. A rather positive feature of our basement, that a previous owner installed, is the unusual number of evenly spaced outlets, which worked out incredibly well for this project. Ducking our heads under copper pipes and HVAC ducts, we went down the winding stairs several times a day to pick tulips at exactly the right stage. Some days we missed a harvest window and the flowers fully bloomed before we could harvest them, so we have some beautiful pictures of really open flowers to show you!