garden log 3 - 05/11/25
May. 11th, 2025 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shydeerfinally have some progress to report! but it's not quite as triumphant as i'd have hoped.
basically, my seedlings are either dead or hanging by a thread. in the slight chance i can still save them, i transferred the strongest looking ones to a permanent home, and left the others near the watering can outside to potentially recuperate. see, the problem was the soil had COMPLETELY dried out in the germination tray. i didn't realize this until i started gently repotting them and the dirt, instead of staying in a moist clump, blew away in the wind, leaving naught but the thin hairs of the poor, malnourished root system. i felt absolutely terrible. but i refuse to give up.
even if these poor seedlings are goners, i won't let that heartbreak and guilt stop me from continuing to garden this year. i still have those radish seeds, and there's always storebought seedlings i can raise. one only improves their gardening skill after learning lessons along the way, and expert gardeners always tell me their successful bounty rests on the corpses of a thousand plants that they accidentally killed. it's a grim thought, but it does help me shake off the specter of failure.
this coming week, i'll try and germinate some radish seeds, and see if i can nurse those tomatoes and zucchini back. hopefully by this time next week i'll have news.
basically, my seedlings are either dead or hanging by a thread. in the slight chance i can still save them, i transferred the strongest looking ones to a permanent home, and left the others near the watering can outside to potentially recuperate. see, the problem was the soil had COMPLETELY dried out in the germination tray. i didn't realize this until i started gently repotting them and the dirt, instead of staying in a moist clump, blew away in the wind, leaving naught but the thin hairs of the poor, malnourished root system. i felt absolutely terrible. but i refuse to give up.
even if these poor seedlings are goners, i won't let that heartbreak and guilt stop me from continuing to garden this year. i still have those radish seeds, and there's always storebought seedlings i can raise. one only improves their gardening skill after learning lessons along the way, and expert gardeners always tell me their successful bounty rests on the corpses of a thousand plants that they accidentally killed. it's a grim thought, but it does help me shake off the specter of failure.
this coming week, i'll try and germinate some radish seeds, and see if i can nurse those tomatoes and zucchini back. hopefully by this time next week i'll have news.
