HYB: Potential and daydreams

Betty wrote:

Even though I watered faithfully with the soaker hoses, I lost a large
number of new seedlings. Usually, only a few die and others have the failure 
to
grow and die eventually.  This year, several died the first  season.  Maybe
this was Mother Natures way of telling me I'm pushing  the envelope??
I haven't had the time to follow this thread closely, but this bit caught my eye. Now if I watered my seedlings faithfully with the soaker hose here, I would be kissing most of them goodbye too! I don't know what the difference is between your climate and mine. Today is the first day of summer. It is already too hot and we are in drought, so a soaker hose, or hose of any kind is out of the question. I have planted out 12 crosses into 12 polystyrene boxes and put them in the shade. The seedlings were previously in pots in the shade house. I didn't dare risk leaving the transplanting later than late October, even though it was dry and hot. I water them once every few days, with grey water collected in plastic bottles. 8 litres does all 12 boxes. The losses are high because of the conditions, but I feel they would be even higher if I was soaking them. Normally i would have put them straight into the garden, but not this year. The water situation is looking very grim here. I figure if they can't cope on minimal water, they are not seedlings that I want to grow anyway. 
Cheers, Jan

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