After snuggling Juliette and putting her to bed, I was so comfy-drowsy that I thought I'd shut my eyes and snooze for a little while myself. I woke up two hours later, after 9. It was dark, we hadn't eaten dinner, and the little guys were still outside.
Whether it was too much sun during the day or too much cold at night, I couldn't tell you. But they were pale green-yellow, dry, floppy and very, very sad. The tray of cherry tomato seedlings are nearly all bent in half and dead. I think I'll be able to save one, ma
ybe two.
The pic on the left is the yellow, wilty leaves; the pic on the right shows the cherry tomato seedlings. The eight right-most cells are their home, and you can see that they are nearly all dead.This practice of bringing therapeutic signs of life into our somewhat stagnating, frustrating house is not helping today.
On the positive side, I wanted to grow a few Thai Hot Pepper plants as a thank-you to our friend Alex for his help with our yard (even though he said it was an early birthday present). The seeds came yesterday for the Thai's, a few Italian sweet peppers (which I picked mostly because I know my grandma will love them) and Bell Peppers. I'll start them today, probably. And I'm finally putting spinach, lettuce and some of the forget-me-nots in the ground today or tomorrow, providing it stops drizzling.
We'll just file this whole situation away under "experience" and move on, I guess.
2 comments:
Lovin' your blog!! Yes, little seedling tomatoes are tender and get burned by too much sun. That year I gave you a few, we rooted them in cells under a 24 hour fluorescent light, and transferred them into the sun when they became larger, greener, and sturdier, as in closer to five inches. They may recover yet, don't give up hope!
Yay! You have a blog? That's great!! I hope you'll post a pic or two occasionally of that beautiful little girl :) I'm obsessed with growing things this spring, so I love your stories. I keep telling Matthew I'm nesting and that he better just consider himself lucky that I'm growing plant babies and not real babies ;) Growing things is a great and productive distraction for you guys!! (though I hope it soon is just an enjoyable hobby instead of distraction)
This has been my learning year as well. I started some seedlings for around our mailbox and planted those too early outside - they too bent over/dried out from the sun. I also had some sunflowers that were taking off that I'd put into pots on the side of the house until we'd finished the bed where I wanted them...then we had the house powerwashed, and apparently the bleach mix they used in the powerwashing kills baby plants. In fact, I think it kills not so baby plants too, as the gardenia bushes we planted last fall have mostly dry, crackly leaves. I'm hoping they *might* be able to be revived with some tlc...we'll see.
Warmest wishes for quickly sprouting ground plants and forget-me-nots!!
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