I didn’t know it was possible, but I actually ended up killing most of the flower seedlings that I started a few weeks back. What ended up happening was something called “damping-off.” Which is basically over watering the seedlings and having a soil fungus develop which kills the root system.
So with that mercy killing over with and done. Last night I started a new flat of flowers, vegetables and a couple of herbs, 12 different plants in all. To replace everything that I killed. I thought starting from seeds would be pretty easy, but it seems to be a little more difficult then I initially thought. Ironically the plant that is doing the best out of all the seedlings are the heirloom sugar peas, go figure. Maybe next year might be an all heirloom year, depending on the yields and taste of the sugar peas this year.
So R.I.P for the following plants, they tried to fight the good fight but lost (with a faint version of Taps playing in the background):
H5 – Oregano
H7 – Rosemary
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V5 – Cucumber – Burpee Pickler
V6 – Cucumber – Marketmore 76
V9 – Garden Bean – Kitchen King
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F2 – Petunia
F3 – Bachelor’s Buttons
F4 – Morning Glory
F5 – Zinnia
F10 – Alyssum
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- Heirloom peas in white cups
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- Dying cucumbers in white cups
6 responses so far ↓
1 Adam Szymanski // Apr 20, 2009 at 7:56 am
Yo! – What are the H5, F2, etc… referring to in your breakdown of what was planted?
2 AuSable // Apr 20, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Good question. Last year I used full name plant tags in the garden to identify the plants, and that didn’t work out so well. So this year I am using a code system, to identify all the plants that I am growing this year. Since a popsicle stick will only hold a couple of characters, I came up with the following system.
V = Vegetables
F = Flowers
H = Herbs
And the number, is basically the ascending order of the seeds for that category on my excel spreadsheet.
3 Szymanski // Apr 20, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Downright clever!
4 AuSable // Apr 20, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Yeah I have my moments.
5 JRR // Apr 21, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I see no major losses in the food items
6 AuSable // Apr 21, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Yeah, most of the heavy loses have been with the flowers. So I’m not really to heartbroken.
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