Plant apocalypse

I’ve been putting the plant-shelf / mini-greenhouse out on the back porch during the day to start the hardening-off process for the seedlings. If you just up and put them outside in the soil all of a sudden, they die of the shock. So instead I bring them outside, covered for several days … bringing them in at evening. Then I start leaving them outside overnight, but uncover them during the day. Then finally, they live outside on the shelf for a few days. At the end of this, in the dirt they go.

I moved the shelf outside the morning, came in, and heard **CRASH**. Looked out on the porch, and the shelf had fallen flat on its face, dumping all the seedlings out of their peat pots into a jumbled pile of crushed and dead. A gust of wind pushed it over, apparently.

I was able to scrape about half of them back into peat pots, and those are back on the sun porch. The rest are compost. Too crimped, broken, or otherwise destroyed to bother.

Gah. Raise plants from seed and see what it gets you.