Tomatoes Cont.

4/19/10

Ready to carefully remove the sprouted seeds from the paper towel and plant.  I decided to get a Jiffy tray to simplify my life so I moved as many seeds as didn't get damaged in the removal process over to the tray and planted a few new seeds in three of the chambers as well.

4/21/10

Two days later all the sprouted seedlings were looking great, as good as or better than the seeds planted twelve days prior in the tin bucket (that were not presprouted).

4/25/10

Sadly, I am just now getting around to posting this though I created it back in April and now all, but three plants have completely shriveled up and died.  So sad that this endeavor did not turn out as I had hoped.  I think the lesson learned here is that this is not the season of my life to try to start plants from seed.  I will likely go out and buy some starter tomato PLANTS because I would still like to have some fresh off the vine for my family.  Maybe when the kids are older and life is slightly less chaotic I will have the time required to properly care for seedlings.  I think it was lack of adequate light and consistant watering that did these poor little ones in.  Wish I had a better report and I even considered deleting the posts all together, but thought I should be honest about my failures too. :)