Spring is here, spring is here!

And that means I can start my seeds (well, that I started them nine days ago).

Basil, Cilantro, Chives (though I think two basil seeds might have escaped to the chives section). All growing well in their Chinese takeout container, basil especially!

String beans! Growing fast!

Snow peas

The string beans are in the black pot, and the snow peas are in the tan one. Both have teepees to grow upwards.

My poor, poor little tomatoes

I thought it was about time for a garden update. I'm moving in a few weeks, and my new apartment doesn't have a porch like this one, so my garden will have to be much smaller and much more indoors. However, I really can't live without tomatoes, so I planted some cherry tomatoes and roma tomatoes to grow in pots on the fire escape of my new apartment. I had posted a few pictures of these tomatoes when they were babies, but then they got really big really fast! Like a good four inches tall with lots of leaves. Sadly, I don't have any pictures of this stage in their lives... They were on my windowsill when one day, it got really windy! 


My poor tomatoes got blown around quite a bit, and they never recovered:

Dead

One lone tomato remains
(I had just thinned out this pot, too,
since there were like eight)

My cinnamon basil seedlings survived the storm, though (they were on a table next to the window, not on the windowsill):

Baby plants!

I planted some seeds two weeks ago, and now I have some baby tomatoes, dill, and basil. The basil didn't grow very well (there are only two baby basil plants right next to each other in the big pot).

I have cherry tomatoes, roma tomatoes (San Marzano on the packet), dill, and cinnamon basil. Cinnamon basil sounded really interesting, and since I can never have enough basil, I bought the seeds.