Back in April I saw a tweet shitting on ppl& #39;s quarantine sprouts, saying they were gonna die cause nobody knew how to garden. I also saw someone post that they got rid of their "dud" strawberries bc they didn& #39;t fruit. But strawberries don& #39;t often fruit til their 2nd year.

My March-planted strawberries haven& #39;t fruited or even flowered yet but the strongest one has sent out a runner, a sign that things are going well! I almost stopped caring for them because in April the sprouts WERE looking bad - spindly and too tall, and pale.

I did some research and then kind of wung it - planted them a bit deeper and moved them outside with a short hardening off period. I& #39;m glad I didn& #39;t end up giving in to the failure feelings sparked by seeing that mean tweet about my/our quarantine plants being destined for death.

It& #39;s easy to internalize someone else& #39;s senseless negativity and I guess my point with this thread is that you don& #39;t always need to do that. Just because someone& #39;s mean to you doesn& #39;t mean they are right. Do your research and then do your best.

And I hope that person who threw out their "dud" strawberries isn& #39;t too discouraged, and learns that they weren& #39;t a failure after all!