Thinning
Cotyledons and first tiny leaves
Last week Min’s Bee Balm seedlings were 2 cm tall, had their little round primary leaves (cotyledons) and were just getting their first real leaves!
Spindly seedlings
This week the wee plants have doubled in size, are getting their second pair of true leaves, and starting to look spindly.
Thinning
Time to pull some out.
To the compost
It might seem heartless, but we have to do it, so the ones we keep will be healthier. Min took a big bucket to the compost…
Watering
…and watered the remaining eight plants.
Grow Bee Balm, Grow!
Grow, Bee Balm, Grow!
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Quimper Hittys 
Thinning little seedlings is a difficult task. Min is so diligent in caring for her plantlets.
We always feel so murderous yanking them out…but are hoping the remaining plants become sturdy, tall and flowery!
With that tender loving gaze and heart’s cry from Min, I feel sure Min will have lovely plants in the near future.
We hope so, and have managed to keep them alive so far!
Min is such a good little gardener. And those little plants did not die in vain…they are busy becoming compost! Hope that Min’s bee balm grows leaps and bounds!
Compost is good too! Min is all for leaping bounding Bee Balm!
Are they edible? I don’t feel quite so wretched yanking up, say, basil seedlings, because I can just gobble them up…
I wasn’t sure so I just composted them…if these sprouts grow into viable plants, perhaps I will dare to try some edible ones next!