defeated at every turn

The next time I went into town I bought all the things I needed to make a veggie garden. I got seeds, seed raising mix, trays to plant them in, trays to sit the seed trays on. And all in vain.

The kids had some raddish seeds to plant so we went about planting them. I picked up the wrong end of the seed packet and half of them fell into the bag of seed raising mix. I tried to get the kids to help but too many hands in the way make for a stressful time, so I packed up til later.

I planted the seeds the next evening when all the kids were in bed, to protect the planting process, then I locked the seeds in the little shed, to protect them from the kids. BUT I didn't count on the rats or mice or whatever it was that went into every little seed hole, dug out the seeds and ate them. (hope they all got stomach ache).

A few of the seeds survived, apparently they don't like green bean seeds, or all the raddish seeds that were mixed in. These started growing tall and strong (raddishes came up everywhere in a couple of days), a few days after the beans sprouted we had 3 extremely hot days that killed off all the seedlings.