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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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