Planted things look dead for a while. That’s not failure, that’s the soil doing its job.

Nothing useful is happening above ground for a long stretch after planting, and the absence of evidence is the hardest part to sit with. Roots are being built where you cannot see them, and pulling something up to check on progress is the one action that guarantees it fails. Slowness is the process, not a fault in it.

If you are in a season with no visible results, stop auditing it weekly. Keep watering, which is to say keep doing the plain repeated thing. Judge it at the end of the season rather than in the middle of the waiting.