Haste (does in fact) Make Waste

Well, I kept this blog last year in order to help myself do a better job this year. Then in my excitement to get started, I completely unlearned all of my learning.

Here's where I messed up.

1. I started my seedlings indoors a bit early. Because of that and their location (not close enough to a window) they got very long rather than healthy and full.

2. I started separating some of the smaller seedlings too small and killed most of my tomato starts.

3. I put the zucchini that I started in the ground and lost it in one day. I'm not sure why. I can only assume it is because I transplanted too early.

So, I'm starting over on a lot of things this year and am going to follow along much more closely to what I did last year when things worked really well.

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Onion Sets

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