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Hello Charles,
Thanks for the reply.
I don’t think we were overdoing the watering – I could be wrong, of course. We were misting the seedlings every two or three days, when the surface of the modules started looking drier. As I mentioned, we were using the fibre compost, which seems to be a little misleading when it comes to gauging dampness – as you’ve mentioned in one of your books. After reading your ‘Organic Gardening’ book, we had over-watering in mind, so were trying not to get too carried away.
The first batch of cabbages and cauliflowers were sown on February 8th – by yesterday, the first seed leaves on all of them had withered completely. The last time the seedlings were misted (which was before the first post in this thread), it was a cloudy day and obviously some water remained on the leaves – that, to me, sounds far too simple an explanation, but we’re having problems working out what went wrong! I have a photograph which I could email you, if necessary.
Apart from that, everything else seems to be proceeding slowly, even though they’re all sitting on the heated bench… we think this might just be due to the colder weather… the lettuces, for example, don’t seem to have done much in a month! Ours seem stuck at the first seed leaves, with one small first true leaf each…
Thanks in advance…
JP