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Saturday, April 21, 2018
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Anna’s tomatoes. Planted on March 22nd. Moved into the 1/2 gallon size pots on April 21st. She is having a good year so far except when I try to help her.
What’s the opposite of the Midas touch? That’s what I’ve got. I cracked a rib coughing. Which is just great... how am I supposed to rototill or broadfork? In moderate pain I guess! Was thinking about calling it quits today. Pulled my Radach plant. It wilted in the sun today and I just figured it was worth more dead than alive. I wanted to examine the roots. Turns out it’s roots were not healthy. They were basically all dead or damaged except for some new ones emerging from the stem near the soil surface. I could have replanted it and it might have survived. I did not have any H2O2 on hand though to treat the root rot. Lack of oxygen was probably a big part of the problem.
1724 Schmidt’s are alive 3/3 coming up.
1442.5 Hoomis is 0/4. One tried to grow but rotted. I am making all the same mistakes I’ve made in the past. I planted them into garden dirt, which works great for solid seeds from the previous year. I didn’t have any more seedling mix on hand, and I figured if I planted four (cracked) seeds in loose garden soil at least one would come up. The soil funguses can kill these older and/or damaged seeds quickly. The one that sprouted would have made it in sterile soil. Wasting a good seed is no fun at all. The Schmidt seeds I planted were all damaged also (cracked from getting rolled in the mail) but all three are coming up... so I guess age is a factor more than damage since they’re younger. Or maybe the amount of damage matters.
Overall, the Hoomis seeds were more damaged than the Schmidt seeds, and five years older. It was a mistake to put any of the cracked Hoomis seeds in unsterile soil.
Have I done ANYTHING right this year...? Uh, no...
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