Trying to grow the seeds given by the Department of Agriculture for the first time.

Greetings,

About a few weeks ago I received some seeds donated by the Department of Agriculture. The seeds were handed to my son Carlo at that time because I went to the market so when I got home I wondered who gave it to me and I asked mama who handed it and when she said it was our neighbour I immediately message her where it was from and told me that is was from the Department of Agriculture. Then I remembered I once went to the office in March to ask for some seedlings but then that time they don't have any available and the staff who lives in the same barangay I live told me to wait and she'll inform me whenever they have available.

So, now the staff has given me the seeds and since I submitted my entry for the provincial program of Sugbosog (its a program that aimed to encourage non-farmer to grow vegetables in their backyard) she also instructed that when I receive them as soon as possible they must be planted immediately because after 20 days they will evaluate each participant so in the following morning I bought a new seedling tray for my new seeds and sowed them.

I made an indicator so it's very easy to identify each seedling. For my soil medium, I use a part of humus soil, animal manure and sawdust.

I used 2 raws for each kind of seeds and the rest I use for planting snow cabbage also I tried to grow sunflower seeds in the tray because for a while I have been trying to grow sunflowers to the ground since I'm done sundried them from harvest but then nothing shows up I think chicken pick it for food.

After a week this is the update, you can see here that okra grows 100%, eggplant and chillies got 98%. The string beans only got two seeds sprouted but the other one is not normal (I think I place it upside down that's why the growth is abnormal) and sadly nothing grows in the cucumber.

Because it happened I thought of looking at the seeds that did not grow to see if they were still there. The seeds were still there but when I picked them up and squeezed them they were so wilted, that it seemed as if I watered them more often, so it turned out that the rest of them didn't grow.

Now I replaced the wilted seeds and I put them somewhere in a shady area where they can receive sunlight.

Do you think I really made a mistake in the watering schedule or in the place where I put them or in the seeds they gave me because I once heard that the seeds given by the government are not good because they usually don't grow properly?

Hopefully, my seedling will still hit the target of evaluation soon🙏🥺.