We’ve been about a month without a hard frost now, and the weather has been absolutely spring-like. Every other day brings rain and thunderstorms, and it couldn’t be a more ideal time for growing things.

Unfortunately, I messed up when I planted peppers and tomatoes 8 and 7 weeks before the last “predicted” frost date: My lights weren’t quite powerful enough, and all of my originally indoor-started plants are on death’s doorstep.

These Plants are Dead

These are also dead

 Furthermore, nothing was growing in the garden boxes, principally because my method of dumping water from a cup was completely washing out the seeds every time, and they eventually became burried again.

In order to solve these problems, I went to Lowes and bought a watering can, and some additional plants:  Two tomato plants, two pepper plants, six basil plants, and a bell pepper plant.  I’ll probably return to a local nursery this weekend and purchase some more tomatoes.  Despite giving in to the horrible, horrible plant companies, I made sure all the varieties I purchased where heirloom, and chauk this up to another lesson learned.  Next year, I’ll be more careful about my seed starting.

New plants:

Store bought, but tasty