We bought a dehydrator to make our own dried seeds, fruit leathers, tofu jerky, potato and fruit chips and other goodies. We bought a vacuum sealer so we could store excess veggies in the freezer for winter meals. I researched homemade pasta sauce and salsa recipes for the abundance of tomatos we'd have with the THIRTY TWO tomato plants I was coaxing from the seed trays.
Once the perfect green shoots were big and healthy enough in their tiny seed trays, T and I added organic potting soil and transplanted them into peat pots; when the weather got warmer, we took them outside into the sun and waited for them to reach for the sky.
Instead, nearly all of them slowly turned white and wilty and fell over dead.
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We are pretty sure it was something in the organic potting soil that lead to their demise. As they collapsed into their pots, so did my visions of sharing jars of pasta sauce with the neighbors and spooning homemade baby food into Austin's mouth. All that work, all that anticipation... laying leafless and dead at the bottom of the pots.
There are no words to express my disappointment.