A few weeks ago I started some seeds inside to give them a chance to get hardy enough to survive outside when the time is right. I planted a couple different kinds of tomatoes, peppers and Brussels sprouts. I also started a table top lettuce garden.
At first everything was doing great. All of the little seeds sprouted and filled my little trays with green that promised to provide hours of entertaining while I weeded and harvested. I decided I had planted to many seeds in each little whatever you call those things and decided to thin them as the packages suggest. Carefully I plucked some that looked less hardy and checked on them daily, providing water when they needed and positioning them in the window to get the best sun.
Slowly one by they started dying off. First the tomatoes withered and died then the sprouts. Next my beloved lettuce wilted and died. The only thing remaining are the peppers.
Looking back I think I may have planted to many seeds in each pod, waited to long to thin them and perhaps my water is not good enough for the plants. I've never been really great at keeping house plants alive and if any of them look better than half alive now its because they are either new or Jeff remembered to water them.
You would think with the deck stacked like it is, not having a green thumb, my proven failed attempts at tomatoes and so on, I would quit now and buy my veggies already grown, however I am more determined that ever to make this work. Kind of like Susan Lucci chasing her award I am going to dump the dead little sprouts and try again.
For the record I don't even like tomatoes or peppers but now its personal!
