Overall: Daily watering the plants when they were not yet outside and it was about 16 celcius is probably too much. Also thought my plants were in direct sun all day sitting inside by the window: not true. At best plants got light from 8-11am (3hrs); after that the sun got too high. When I moved them to the balcony, during the day, the light hours improved to 8am-15pm (7hrs). Not sure that the 3-2-5 fertiliser is really the best for lettuce growth, probably want higher nitrogen to encourage leaf growth. I should log when I water, fertilise, thin, or do anything noteworthy to a plant. Also log noteworhty weather events. We also wave goodbye to my rosemary plant which I underwatered and then overwatered and grossely neglected. There is tonnes of natural rosemary around here, but Ray the rosemary plant will be missed!
7th:
Sowed cherry tomato, marmande tomato, courgette, bell pepper in specialised soil disks.
9th:
Knocked seedling tray off the table: no longer know which plant is growing where, or what plant seeds are still in soil disk.
Added extra seeds to each disk to be safe.
14st:
Sowed lettuce directly in 0.3m diameter, 0.25m deep plastic pot with universal potting soil.
Did not apply fertiliser. Maybe I should have before fertilising.
16th:
Courgette seedling has first real leaf.
Courgette seedling transplanted to 0.3m diameter, 0.25m deep plastic pot with universal potting soil.
10 ml of N-P-K 3-2-5 fertiliser applied to courgette.
21st:
2 tomato seedlings potted to 0.3m diameter, 0.25m deep plastic pot with universal potting soil.
Not sure if I have 2 cherry, 2 marmande, or one of each at this stage.
Did not apply fertiliser.
30th:
Topped up soil in courgette, tomato, and basil pots, since they were not full to brim.
While topping up soil, removed stones blocking drainage holes since bottom soil was extremely wet. Made 2 additional holes at the bottom of the pots, and stones now serve to lift pot couple cm off the ground to improve drainage.
Gave a couple ml of 3-2-5 fertliser to courgette, tomatoes, and 5ml to lettuce.
Thinned lettuce, keeping best looking seedlings with their first real leaves.
Lettuce overall a bit leggy, could be due to insufficient sun light.