plant status updates

[rm]

I've moved the rest of the herbs outside so they can get more sun. They were doing fine, but I think this is better.

I can't find the frigging strawberry seeds!

We are now at TWO tiny tomatos on the green zebra. There are several other flower buds, at least one of which seems like it clearly won't turn into a tomato. The others are small and have not opened yet.

I will clearly need to add more soil to the recently repotted acquisitions from yesterday as that all settles and gets watered and all. I also need sticks to keep the two need tomato plants upright. They are younger than the zeba, and I don't expect tomatos on them until July at the earliest.

The pepper plant already seems to have some buds well hidden in the leaves. Will the bees find it?

The basil has had no disasters so far, although something came and ate half a leaf.

Should I plant some flowers to summon bees?

What other food-stuff is well suited to container gardening on a fire escape?

It was originally supposed to rain today. I am so glad it did not.

I am really, really into this.

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[hyrkanian.livejournal.com]

Parsley has been ridiculously easy for me to keep alive in pots on our deck, it's even overwintered and come back (but that's in NC, pretty sure it wouldn't do that up where you are). One really cool thing about parsley is that several butterfly species' caterpillars feed on it (as well as fennel, etc.) and we've watched several go through chrysalis stage and emerge as butterflies. So I plant a lot more than we'll ever use. :)