Digging In

I decided to just try some things with starting the seeds. If I'm too early or too late this time, hopefully next year I'll learn something from what I've done. Oliver and I used to have a garden years ago. Tomatoes, cucumber, some pepper plants... squash... so much basil I made myself sick eating basil on tomatoes while he was gone one summer... I mostly let him take care of the garden. I deferred to his knowledge from watching his dad garden for years. Besides I think he liked it.

I tried to pay attention to what he did. I know we picked sucker branches off the tomatoes, and sprayed for bugs when the squash bugs appeared, and hunted hornworms daily (there was that time that he was gone and I let a hornworm eat all 3 pepper plants to absolutely nothing before I realized there was one out there - biggest hornworm I've ever seen and never want to see it again!). I watered for a certain amount of time every evening... only left the water on for hours or all night on occasion.

Basically I feel pretty ignorant.

I think we started from seeds once. I remember making newspaper pots. We got most of our plants from his mom and dad.

So now Sean and I have a Jiffy Greenhouse peat thing. I made the newspaper pots. I bought paper towels today to try starting seeds between wet paper towels inside sandwich bags. I have a few old small pots from annuals and some egg cartons we've saved. I don't know which is the best method.

I'm afraid I'm going to waste all my seeds.

I'm afraid either none will sprout or too many will sprout too close and I'll have to waste a lot.

I'm afraid I've waited to late for some and am starting too early for others.

And I'm afraid I'll get the seeds in pots and flats and then kill them by over or underwatering.

But

if I don't start now I don't know when I'll start. And while this may not be the perfect time, there may not be a perfect time. At least I tried.