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The great greenhouse disaster

4/30/2015

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As my readers know I was so excited to have my own makeshift greenhouse.  The plants were transferred from my laundry room to the greenhouse and they were thriving.  However, with every up sometimes comes a down.  I had been keeping tabs on the weather to be sure we weren’t going t to experience a freeze or other problem that would kill the tender seedlings…that is when tradgedy struck.  We have a saying in this part of the country…if you don’t like the weather, just wait 5 minutes and it will change.  Change it did.  The forecaster reported the low to be 39 degrees when in reality it dipped to 29 (he missed the mark didn’t he?)  


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I am not sure exactly why but my hubby’s design did not allow the seedlings to withstand the intense cold.  I came out in the a.m. to some very sad and wilty plants that had been thriving just the day before.  I nurtured them throughout the day and did everything I knew but by that evening ALL but the cabbage were totally dead (cabbage looks great though!).  Sooo discouraging!  I lost over 100 plants.

What is a determined farmgirl to do?  Start getting her hands dirty.  I did and we planted all of them again.  


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The bright spot was a beautiful butterfly baby that landed while we were potting all those seeds again.  My 11 y/o (an optimist like her mama) reminded me to be thankful that we didn’t live in a time where those seeds were our only source of food and if they didn’t grow…we didn’t eat.  Well stated darlin’
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