I Made A Promise Via Pinky The Other Night:

I made a promise via pinky the other night:

I’m staying with them until the very end 💜

POV: You’re me, and you live in tornado alley and the rotation was less than a mile from you, literally up the road, but you’re busy cutting potatoes for dinner.

Lolz, lmao, funny, haha.

It’s only funny because I live here and I recognize that 😔, but I felt like pestering y’all tonight with something completely random. In all seriousness, I’m okay, nothing serious happened. It was moving really fast and was out of my area within a few minutes. I’m used to it so I just brush it off and laugh about it at this point 😅

Also gardening update coming soon 👀👀👀

… and Imma stick beside him 🙂

What’s something you do that annoys other people?!

I don’t eat candy or sweets very often, but when I do, I put the empty candy wrappers back in the bag full of candies. When somebody else reaches into the bag they find my empty wrappers.

Nobody:

Everybody:

Garden Update #3

Guess what?

🤩 Cilantro Sprouts 🤩

I spy!!! I think it’s very interesting that they sprouted up in loops with the top bent over. I thought they were growing wrong at first and couldn’t figure out how I messed up. Turns out, that’s just how they grow. It’s cute or whateva 😏

However, 😔 problems arose 😔

The bottoms of a lot of the cups became moldy. I had a feeling the paper cups would have an effect and be effected somehow, but I didn’t anticipate mold 😔 Some of the cups were worse than others and I think it effected the grow of some of the seeds. Only 3 of 4 cilantros sprouted and only 1 of 3 bell peppers sprouted, however, the pepper sprouts didn’t even surface yet and the top of the dirt was covered with mold. ☹️

I think what happened was, I didn’t give the cups big enough holes for drainage and circulation. When I would water the seeds, because the roots were still not developed or very small, the dirt was over-watered at the bottom of the cups and then it would absorb into the paper. There was also no airflow under the cups, so there was no way for them to dry and they would just be sitting in their own moisture. It was a combination of things going on.

It happens. I’ve never started seeds like this and I knew there was going to be problems eventually. I just knew that I needed to get the seedlings out of those cups before they started feeding off of the mold and get diseases. They wouldn’t be edible at that point.

✨ My Solution ✨

I don’t know if it’s gonna work for sure, but I used a whole punch to make bigger holes near the bottom and on the bottom of the cups. All I had was a heart hole punch so… that’s cute 😛

I replanted them yesterday

As you can see, I’ve placed the cups on cooking racks this time around so hopefully that’ll help the bottoms to air out.

I cut the old cups open and carefully removed the sprouts. Because the bottom of the cups were moldy, the bottom of the dirt was moldy and I needed to get rid of it. I carefully pulled the bottom of the dirt off, trying not to disturb the roots too much because non of the sprouts are strong enough for a full transplant yet. Then I put them in the new cups with new dirt on the bottom.

I have a feeling I may have stunted the growth of some of the sprouts, but I have more seeds if that’s the case. The cilantro roots were the biggest and strongest. Bok Choy roots were kinda long, but they were really delicate and broke easily. The basil didn’t hardly have any roots.

These are the sprouts this morning:

They haven’t been too happy because it’s been really cloudy around here, but they’re doing well still 🤩 The cilantro shot up really fast and it’s taller than the Bok Choy already. They were all a little limp yesterday, but they’re standing tall today 🤩 Hopefully the new dirt on the bottom of the cups will give them a little boost of nutrients to survive.

Anyways, this update was pretty big but a lot happened. I’ll let you know if anything else happens.

I’ll be back. Wait for me 💜😊