Things
looked as if I was literally on a roll.
Planted 8 cucumber seeds from a seed pack and 3 robust looking seedlings burst through the soil on the first attempt. That’s like a 37.5% success rate. Not bad for a first timer. A small voice in me said “Well done!” I felt my head swelled a little as I gave myself an imaginary pat on the back!
Threw all the seeds from a store bought butternut pumpkin into a pot and within days a whole lot of greens appeared and very sturdy looking ones too. Another “well done” echoed in my head.
Re-planted the 3 cucumber and 3 of the biggest butternut vines onto a “prime location” evicting gingers, the current tenant to another location. I reckoned this prime location boosted a fence which Messrs cucumbers and butternuts would appreciate better than the rhizomes.
All seemed well and I was already dreaming of cubes and squashes.
Then without any sign of warning, the sky opened up and rained consecutively for a few days turning the prime lot waterlogged and residents there with broken limbs and disorientated.
The aftermath looked as if a cyclone had descended.
So that was Trial & Error, lesson #1
Planted 8 cucumber seeds from a seed pack and 3 robust looking seedlings burst through the soil on the first attempt. That’s like a 37.5% success rate. Not bad for a first timer. A small voice in me said “Well done!” I felt my head swelled a little as I gave myself an imaginary pat on the back!
Threw all the seeds from a store bought butternut pumpkin into a pot and within days a whole lot of greens appeared and very sturdy looking ones too. Another “well done” echoed in my head.
Re-planted the 3 cucumber and 3 of the biggest butternut vines onto a “prime location” evicting gingers, the current tenant to another location. I reckoned this prime location boosted a fence which Messrs cucumbers and butternuts would appreciate better than the rhizomes.
All seemed well and I was already dreaming of cubes and squashes.
Then without any sign of warning, the sky opened up and rained consecutively for a few days turning the prime lot waterlogged and residents there with broken limbs and disorientated.
The aftermath looked as if a cyclone had descended.
So that was Trial & Error, lesson #1
- Don’t put all the best together
- Prime location does not mean (safe) haven
- Take precautions… darlings!
Ok now
I need to go and sow more cucumber seeds and say hello to the other surviving butternut
vine and I am letting out the prime location.
PS: Ginger sweetheart... do you want to return to your previous home?
PS: Ginger sweetheart... do you want to return to your previous home?
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