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General => The Shed => Topic started by: springbok on March 07, 2008, 08:21:38

Title: Kids!!
Post by: springbok on March 07, 2008, 08:21:38
Saying this with gritted teeth!!.

My 11 year old daughter had a peek in the greenhouse without telling me she had been in there.   She said she went to look!!!... but........

She did not close the door properly.  Been up there this morning to see loads of my seedlings keeled over  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Anything I can do to save them??  What were once healthy seedlings 24 hours ago now look half dead  :'( :'( :'( :'(

Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: northener on March 07, 2008, 08:37:04
What are they? Is it the cold thats killed them? Not a lot you can do only resow(is that a word)
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: springbok on March 07, 2008, 08:42:57
Mainly chilli seedlings!  i am thinking the cold killed them too :(
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: kenkew on March 07, 2008, 08:45:21
Today will tell you if they're going to make it.
What are they?
Is your greenhouse heated?
Have you thought about swapping your daughter for a greenhouse heater?
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: sarah on March 07, 2008, 09:15:30
o dear. never work with kids or animals. my cat has eaten my chilli seedlings.  ::) ???
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Kea on March 07, 2008, 12:30:46
She's only 11 wait till she's a teenager i have two of those 'things'! Now I understand why when I was a teenager my father referred to me as she or her never by name and never spoke to me directly!
But when I was a teenager he was in his late 60's/early 70's so the age gap was huge.
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: Jeannine on March 07, 2008, 12:36:45
I remember the first time by Dad had a greenhouse and grew tomatoes. he went in every day and talked to them as if they were babies. One started to ripen ahead of the others, he watched it carefully.. then one day he went to get it................gone.........when I told him it tasted great I thought my days were numbered!!

XX Jeannine
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: kenkew on March 07, 2008, 12:42:21
There were 6 of us and my dad put a label with each of our names on it onto a tommy stalk. As it ripened we could have it. My first one started to go a bit orangy but then went back to green. That happened for ages. It was only when I spotted my older brother moving my name label onto another green tommy and eating my ripe one did I twig what was going on....so I did the same to my younger brother!
Title: Re: Kids!!
Post by: longlad on March 08, 2008, 03:00:20
[ One started to ripen ahead of the others, he watched it carefully.. then one day he went to get it................gone.........when I told him it tasted great I thought my days were numbered!!


sister in law did that to me I had a plum tom five inch long could I find it  >:( three weeks it took her to own up