A close call…

I love sharing my learning adventures and writing about whatever the outcome is.

Sharing successes is easy to write about, almost fucking up is a good learning lesson not only for me but maybe for some of you.

My failures are now comical to me since I have found peace and I don’t turn into the Incredible Hulk anymore.

Everything was growing beautifully. Then I started ruining it! Shit, shit, shit!

I couldn’t understand why my tomato plants were turning purple on the underside of the leaves and their stems.

Then I started to notice the same happening to some of my flowers and broccoli. Fuck!

I quickly searched the web and found out why. Ugh!

Early last week Marty set up all the hoses with their sprayer attachments.

I decided to bring the hose into the greenhouse and water everything.

That was the first no-no.

The second no-no was when I decided instead of bringing room temp water in milk jugs the house I would use the hose water.

Then I did it again. That’s when everything started turning purple. Dammit! Ugh!

I read that I could do a couple of things and the plants will turn green again Whew!

While I was using the water from the hose first of all in a bright sunny afternoon I burned the basil leaves from my indoor plant. 😕

The hose water was very cold which was too cold for the roots of the plants. When this happens the plants can get any nutrients.

The plants began lacking phosphorus. I applied organic tomato and garden fertilizer to each of the correct pots and watered them with warm water.

Today, after I watered everyone with warm water, I did notice a couple of the stems of the tomato plants were turning green again with an ombré effect.

My plants that I started from seeds are my babies. Just like my sons I could tell the second something wasn’t right.

I knew when the boys were sick even before they did sometimes and I always knew when they had a problem.

I study each of my veggie and flower plants everyday when I check on them and I knew something was very wrong.

Thank goodness I acted quickly and was able to remedy the situation. They all should be ok, I hope.

Just because the hoses were handy to use I never thought about the temperature of the water coming out. Duh!!!

This will go in my garden notes for sure. This mistake turned into a lesson for me to learn from.

I feel like a total dumb ass and realize I am still a novice and can’t get cocky.

This experience made me a more humble gardener knowing you have to think about these things to be a truly successful.