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I am feeling rather depressed right now about my latest veggie garden endeavor. I was so excited about this, and now I just feel frustrated and confused. On October 9 I direct-sowed peas, lettuce, spinach, onions, carrots, shallots, leeks, cauliflower, and marigolds. Almost a month later now the peas are only about 2-3" tall and yellowing. One of the dozens of lettuce seeds I sowed is about 2" tall and same with the marigolds. Everything else has failed to sprout. I'm so confused! I have everything in raised beds, which I replenished with lots of compost and some organic potting soil before sowing. Should I have let the soil sit after I added the compost before planting? Should I have sown everything individually in containers and then transplanted? Should I have covered the raised bed with plastic to make sort of greenhouse until everything sprouted? I feel like I've been good about watering, so I just don't know. The only thing I can think of is that maybe some of the seeds were too old. Some were from 2008 and some 2007, but the shallots are from this year and they never sprouted. Please help!!
(x-posted in Beginner Vegetables)
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