April 2009
Suffering Seedlings

April 24.

The seedlings are croaking. The leaves are shrinking and folding. A few evenings ago I looked at them and wondered what happened to all the green.

That morning I had to leave for the entire day and wouldn’t be home till after dark. It had been sunless for days before. It was in the 50s that morning and I debated about putting them in my glassed-in south-facing porch. I knew the sun would eventually warm it up.

But the big question was: is it more important for them to get sun now? Or be warm now? That morning, I knew they would not have both. So I put them out. That night, forget it.

The plants continue to decline except for the ones I left inside in a small south-facing window. The Pompeii tomatoes and a few Thunbergia are doing best.

by Mary Jasch

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