World's worst gardener?

I don’t know what to tell you, except maybe you got too late a start?
I’m a full zone further north than you, and our tomatoes are 3 feet tall, and full of blossoms/tomatoes. Unfortunately, I am not really experienced starting from seed, so I can’t help you much.

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.

I don’t know…I bought the seed in April, grew them indoors until I felt it was okay to transplant them in May. I don’t know if it was too late..I’m not sure :(

-- " You can judge the character and greatness of a society by how it treats its animals."

CV my cosmos started to look like that just after I planted them.I staked them up and it took awhile but they are growing great now and nice and straight. Your morning glory are a bit stringy but the vines look like they are thick enough to carry on growing. your flower mix is gonna need a lot of TLC. Remember never to let your seedlings totally dry out.It really puts a strain on them. Good luck.Hope they start growing up soon.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

I buy the Hummingbird seeds every year and throw them at the same place. It has full sun exposure and usually does very well.
This year I was a bit late doing so, it has rained and awful lot and the weeds are doing better than the plants.
The first year, it took for ever! Was such a bare spot except for the annuals I had purchased!
I find that flowers started directly in the garden do not do that well the first year! The second year is usually great!

Your sage looks good! Most perennial herbs, once they are rooted are pretty much drought resistant!
I have my sage (3 different types), chamomile, mint, thyme in my “Xero” flower bed and it is all doing great!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Those who never did a thing wrong…...............never did much. We live, we learn.

My first garden…............a rabbit clear cut it so I planted it again and put a “rabbit proof fence around it”. The sun came out as did all the leaves in the big maples and the garden saw nothing but shade. The potatoes were smaller then the ones I planted and half as many.

Transplant in the late evening or early moring, water at the same time. A little fertilizer helps but I prefer well composted manure.

I do admire your determination, perserverance and self decipline. In the end it is these qualites that make a nice garden.

-- Central northish Ontario

hey girl I don’t think your doing bad at all. It’s hard to tell from pictures but it seems like things are just starting to take hold. Your tomatoes look great, they like to be above 50 degrees to take off. There are some varieties that will work in cooler climates. Here in California we start in march and plant all the way till June. You should be really proud of yourself. The seedling look a little weak sometimes seeds stretch for light and there stems can be weaken from that. Your just look young to me. I love what your doing the only way to get better is to keep at it. Lulu

Some of your soil looks like small rocks or pebbles?
It’s hard to tell from the pictures but if that is the case, you may need to amend those areas with organic matter to adjust the Ph down a bit. It looks like the plants could be thriving because of the rain rather than getting nutrients from your soil.

It not too late to test a small patch and make notes for next year.

Bob

-- I want to believe in a lot of things but, in the meantime I have to deal with the truth