Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The strong survive

Today was an unusually difficult day at work. I had to lay off an employee and it felt awful. This wasn't the first time I've done this and it doesn't get any easier. I stuck to the script and made it through with the support of my peers and team. I am blown away by the number of people who ask how I was doing. I was very glad when the work day was behind me.

I was happy to come home to my wonderful husband who had bought me some beautiful Calla Lilies and later picked up dinner for a post-yoga meal.

Now that I have cleared my head about my work day I thought I would post some updates on our veggie seedlings. I haven't posted many updates because i was a little embarrassed about their progress. We had some trouble with our plant lights and decided to give them some fresh air and sunlight one day when we headed off to work. Sadly it was a windy day and many of them didn't make it but the strong have survived. My motto for the day. Almost all of the cucumbers have new leaves and the one remaining watermelon does as well. The Basil is slow out of the gate but I have high hopes. The tomatoes also have some new leaves starting so I am feeling good about having lots of cherry tomatoes come summer.
Hopefully we will plant our remaining seeds this week so we don't pay nursery prices for flowers in the garden.

2 comments:

  1. Your seeds are looking great! Ally wants me to tell you that we made our own greenhouse on the windowsill with a glass canister, paper towels, and snap peas. I've been adding my green tea bags after they've steeped - the heat is working wonders and I read that green tea helps with damping off. Who knows???

    If you're having this kind of luck inside, just think how well your seeds will do out in the sunshine. My lettuce, spinach, radishes and carrots sprouted so quickly.

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  2. I'm worried that the artificial sunlight is ideal and when we put them outside they won't make it. I'm sure they will be fine.

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