Failure

Failure is supposed to be a learning experience, but I'm often too anxiety/shame-ridden to take in the life lessons that are undoubtedly there.  With the whole garden thing, I'm relaxed and have little money or time invested.  And it's a solo-venture.  Therefore, my first failures have provided large amounts of learning for me.

Growing like a champ?

Oh, my leggy darlings.

The microgreens, which sprouted quickly and even said "quick and easy" on the label, have proven to be almost too easy...  The tall, fast-growing sprouts that I was so proud of are, in fact, signs of poor lighting.  The  sprouts are too tall, growing as fast as they can in order to reach the light they need.  My remedy was to move all of the Dixie cup babies to the window sill which faces east (south is best).

They seem to be doing better with one large exception.

I've been careful to water all of my seedlings frequently, but for some reason ALL of the microgreens that were planted in the peat cells dried up and withered into little, sad strings.  The good news is that I wasn't really looking forward to eating all of those greens, and now I don't have to.  A few of the lettuce and one or two chive seedlings have gone the same way, alas. 

Now, I check to make sure that any new sprouts are growing upward and developing strong stems and leaves.  The soil that the dead microgreens were planted in is currently being reused for more lettuce and one experimental apple seed.