Last year, I made a list of gardening resolutions. In the spirit of transparency, I'll post how I did on each of these resolutions over the next month. My first resolution stated, "I will no longer grow plants from seeds only to see them languish, unplanted, on the side of my house in what has become known as the plant graveyard." I only lost one flat of plants, and they were extras. I'm doing much better by that account. However, I did let six delphinium dry out and die while waiting to be planted, so maybe that's one area in which I need to improve in the coming year. The photo above was taken a couple of days ago before I cleaned out the plant graveyard.
No matter how hard I try, I always manage to slaughter more than a few seedlings each year. Mine are mostly killed while hardening them off, by either leaving them out in the hot sun, or by forgetting to bring them in before the lawn sprinklers drown them. Sometimes I just grow too many, and get that "I don't care" attitude toward the end.
ReplyDeleteNo matter how hard I try, I always manage to slaughter more than a few seedlings each year. Mine are mostly killed while hardening them off, by either leaving them out in the hot sun, or by forgetting to bring them in before the lawn sprinklers drown them. Sometimes I just grow too many, and get that "I don't care" attitude toward the end.
ReplyDeleteMy preferred mode of neglect is forgetting to water them.
ReplyDeleteHa! Too funny...I thank that every true gardener has a hidden graveyard! This reminds me I should probably clean mine out too :)
ReplyDeleteWow, a gardener after my own heart. I, too have an extensive plant graveyard in my side yard.. I'm really awful about buying marked down plants because I want them.. but then I can't decide where to put them.. and before you know it the roots have grown thru the pot into the dirt below and I'm stuck with a plant in an ugly retail pot. :D It's one of the issues I'm working on..lol
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