Seed Planting and Killing

I sure hope my first year as a gardener is no reflection of how my first year of motherhood will go in the future! I'm so ditsy and neglectful! I left all of my seedlings directly in the hot sun a couple of days ago and killed about a third of them! Poor Babies! I still have about 10-15 of each of the following seedlings: tomatoes, kale, and broccoli, beets, and spinach. It's a good thing I planted, like, 50! That gave me a whole lot more wiggle room for mistakes and neglect! Now I've moved the seedlings into the shade. I'm sorry, seedlings!

I went sow-crazy yesterday: thyme, spearmint, beefsteak and cherry tomatoes (to replace the ones I killed), early summer crookneck squash, allsweet watermelon, tutti frutti snapdragons (like normal snapdragons but sort of candy-striped), tuscan sun hybrid bell peppers (I bought quite a few hybrid seeds, later discovering that I won't be able to cultivate their seeds since they're basically lab-created. oh well), and marigolds. Hopefully this time I'll be very careful and actually have 50 seedlings...so many that I won't know what to do with them and maybe have to pawn them off on friends and family :)

I must admit...I no longer make my own recycled seed starting pot-lets. I have succumbed to laziness. Although now I feel a lot less guilty because I've found that I can buy the jiffy seed starter pellets without the whole "greenhouse" ordeal. At the Home Depot across the street from Parkway Plaza, they sell just the pellets. Hooray!

I've got a lot more seeds to sow this month and the weather is absolutely gorgeous! I'm in gardening heaven!