Slowly but Surely

Finally all the tomatoes are in bigger pots. I barely had enough of pots to do this, so I got some more from my good friend Camille. She even helped with transplanting some of the flowers into the pots. Now some of my herbs and flowers are in big pots, happily waiting for Summer. 

Most of my basil, all of my chamomile, and the red poppies are in big pots like these, thanks to Camille. She is freacking awesome! 


In other news, now we have two tomatoes that are budding! They are going crazy, and I'm hoping that some bugs will show up soon outside, so they could be pollinated. They both are Micro Toms, and so far I like the variety. They are very small, but sturdy, and seem to be getting along a lot faster than the other varieties. They're supposed to stay so small that you can grow them in a regular flower pot. We'll see about that. 

I now have three lavender plants, and I even found one blue poppy! They are still tiny, and you can barely see them in the pots. But they're coming along! Next time I'll just buy the plants, it's been a lot of work to get these things to start growing in the first place.

The Roma tomatoes look kind of sad in their pots, I let them grow in the ninepacks for too long, and they got a little too leggy. But they should straighten out in a few days and start to thrive again. I have eighteen of them which means that every seed I sowed ended up germinating. I also ended up with seven tomatillos, three banana peppers, and nine jalapenos. 

 So things are progressing, it was a nice warm sunny day today, and more of my plants have bigger homes. On the other hand, I still need to pollinate the dang tomatoes by hand. We are getting closer to being ready to plant things outside, so now we need to wait for the night temperatures to rise more. 

Luckily there's a lot of ice cream that we can enjoy in the mean time.