Stupid mistake of the week(month)

[muck lover]

So. Muck lover had a physio appointment yesterday. I was so positive and cheerful after seeing the nice physio i thought i would just nip into homebase. Of course i had to buy something. A nice wee tray of psb seedlings.
Popped the little tray onto the floor of car passanger side and drove home.
I had the car heater on all the way home warming my feet.
You have probably guessed how dead and cooked my seedlings were by the time i got home.
So embarrassingly mind blowingly monumentally stupid. I deserve to be kicked off the forum.

[Baldy]

^^^ yes
https://youtu.be/R_hlMK7tCks

[muck lover]

Gee thanks B

[nickdub]

I've lost count of the stupid things I've done over the years - not much anyone can say by way of help - all we can do is soldier on and try not to make the same mistakes again - cold consolation I'm afraid.

[muck lover]

Remind me to post all the graphic details of my Great Blueberry Scandal some time.
It’s not a pretty tale.

[veggiechicken]

Could you serve them up with dinner and called them "car roasted baby PSB".
I bet if that was on the menu of an upmarket restaurant they would say "How Divine" and send their compliments to the chef.

[mrbadexample]

Obviously I've never done anything stupid.

Are you quite sure they're dead?

[muck lover]

I have salvaged a few. I left them overnight to see if they would recover and it was pretty clear this morning which ones were irretreviably dead. Utterly dead.
I potted the few live seedlings up and hope they can rise above their poor start in life!

[mrbadexample]

All is not lost then. They've plenty of time to recover.

[Bluenowhere]

Glad to hear you have some survivors at least.

[Snoop Puss]

You probably had more than you needed, anyway... Just trying to be friendly.

[veggiechicken]

I have salvaged a few. I left them overnight to see if they would recover and it was pretty clear this morning which ones were irretreviably dead. Utterly dead.
I potted the few live seedlings up and hope they can rise above their poor start in life!

Its Nature's way of "thinning out". She's done you a favour really.

[muck lover]

Agreed. thinning out isnt one of my skills. I do feel obliged to pot up every last seedling. I have my own psb seeds sown. Its one of those veg i could never have too much of.

[muck lover]

So here’s this weeks stupid mistake. I ordered two bags of Marshall’s veg compost. At two for £12 with free postage it sounded like a bargain.
Two huge bags of stuff arrived really promptly and although it smelled a bit I used it to pot up some strawberry runners and baby brassicas. They all died. The stuff was really smelly stinking out the polytunnel. Eventually I evicted it and just used it as a layer on two beds I was building up outside.
Then I got an an email from Marshall’s asking me to leave a review. So I went to town criticising this smelly substance.
They emailed me back and it turns out they accidentally sent me two bags of organic extra instead of fertilizer. When they realised this they sent me the bags of compost I had originally wanted.
Just looked up the price of the organic extra I got in error £23 per bag!!!! So I’m thinking I did well enough from that particular mistake! Thank you Marshall’s. I’m pretty embarrassed though as I really should have realised the stuff was pure concentrated manure and not compost.

[nickdub]

Problem solving flowchart :-

If in doubt, "read the label" - if still unsure "get someone-else to read it for you" - problem not resolved ? = "kick something"

This may not help much with the basic issue, but you're sure to feel better if stuck to rigidly. :-)