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I THINK I PLANTED TOO MANY!

February of this past year I started to get a tad bit antsy about starting my garden. I just wanted winter to be over and summer to begin! All winter I planned this vegetable garden in the depths of my mind. This would be the year that I would have the garden all the neighbors would covet.

I spent weeks gathering what I needed, the seeds, the soil, labels, and hung the shop lights over the table that would house my seedlings that would one day become beautiful and abundant plants. I joined quite a few websites where I could excitedly chat with other gardeners about the hobby that bonded us all.

Tomatoes and peppers were going to be what my green thumb concentrated on this year. I absolutely would not purchase another waxy, tasteless, and bitter tomato from the grocery store. If I had to wait a few months to pick one from my garden, than I would.

One cold and icy February afternoon I descended into my basement bounding down the stairs with excitement. This was the afternoon that would witness the birth of my beautiful veggie garden. I pulled out all my supplies and lined them up in assembly line fashion. It did not take long to plant the tomato and pepper seeds. I planted 4 varieties of tomatoes, beefsteak, plum, cherry, and grape and 3 varieties of peppers, jalapeno, salsa delight and bell. I carefully placed the trays that held all the plastic cups that held the seeds under the lights and draped a thick piece of plastic over the plants. My mini greenhouse! I danced back up the stairs to log my adventures in gardening that afternoon into my gardening diary.

Quite a few weeks went bye and I was thrilled when I peered at my plants to find that each and every plastic cup had these little tiny green plants popping up. Another couple of weeks went bye and I was taken aback to see that each cup had many little tiny green plants maturing. Finally, the day came, when I realized I had quite a few too many plants on my hands. I lifted the plastic to see that each and every cup had about 5 plants growing from it. Oh my, that meant I had about 300 plants of tomatoes and 300 plants of peppers. I thought I had done everything correctly. But their was one thing I did not do. I did not ask someone who actually knew what they were doing how many seeds I should deposit into each cup. And apparently my common sense escaped me that day.

It took a month to separate all of those plants into their very own plastic cup. And that was the least of my worries. What

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