On the weekly schedule now, it seems

Recent actuals:
March 7: 47/64, 0
March 8: 48/59, 0
March 9: 45/56, 0
March 10: 43/59, 0
March 11: 44, 62, 0
March 12: 47/60, 0
March 13: 49/59, 0

I forgot to mention that I thinned the cool box on the rooftop last week and they seem pretty happy. I finally had to call the outside zucchini dead and I dug it up and added it to the compost bin. Sad. But a good learning - the outdoors is a harsh place. It will be time to transplant some of these indoors guys outdoors soon and I worry that I will just be sending them to their death.

This past Thursday I put some organic fertilizer in the large basil pot, the zucchini, and the plants in the round pan with the exception of the chile because I have no faith that it will get much bigger than it is at the moment. I put in less than the box recommended and it still seemed like a lot. I have watered it in and hope that it is not going to hurt anyone. So far, I think it's ok though some of the zucchini leaves look kinda funny.

Indoor plants are flourishing! Zucchini is enormous (and now propped up with a ruler on one side because it started falling over in a not good way) and the strawberries and bean are also looking extremely voluptuous, in a plant sort of way.
The bean - still bent on apartment domination:Two of the basil transplants doing very well! Check out the spearmint on the left - a slow start but it is turning into a nice little scrubby-looking dude.

The tomato plants have really grown

Outdoor box: looking good!
Eric was very saintly in his support of re-building the cover for the warm box in anticipation of putting some of these seedlings out there and not just slaughtering them. It was pretty frustrating because it is sooooo windy up there. But we got it done, and will see about putting some of these seedlings out in the next week!

I'm terrified of the bean

Recent actuals:

March 2: 54/60, 0.48 in

March 3: 48/58, 0.68 in

March 4: 46/56, 0.16 in

March 5: 46/57, 0.84 in

March 6: 48/58, 0

The bean has grown so quickly and so large I fear it will take over the apartment - though it will have to fight the zucchini for total apartment domination.

Everything indoors is growing! Outdoors things are growing, but slowly.

Here's the latest.

It's 10am on Monday: Do you know where your seedlings are?

Friday: 47/59, 0 inches precip
Saturday actuals: 52/63, 0 inches precip
Sunday actuals: 54/60, 0.24 inches precip

Today is the first day of me being a really bad plant parent. I started an actual job today, and I taught yoga this morning, which left me almost no time to brush my teeth much less look at my plants before running off to work. I'm just assuming they are all fine.

Everyone is OK.

That's one crazy bean!

Yesterday's actuals: 49/61, 0.08 in rain

I literally watched the bean growing yesterday. I could see it moving. I'm serious.

I thinned the basil this morning. Tough love.

Plants on the roof growing well but it is so windy up there. I might need to see if I can find a way to create a wind guard to protect them without shading them too much.

Going to see about fertilizer today...

Check out this crazy bean:

Outta my way pole bean!

Yesterday's actuals: 52/61, 0.16 inches rain

The indoor pole bean has sprouted! And whoa nelly is it a big boy!

The basil is looking good post-op though I think will definitely require thinning in the next few days to give the remaining plants more space. I was unjustifiably amazed this morning to discover that it smells like...basil. Very neat.

On the roof, Q's Special Blend lettuce sprouted several days before the Prizehead, which is finally sprouting now. The cilantro is looking good and growing new leaves - it may actually be happier in the cooler climate outdoors. Everything seems to be progressing appropriately, though the indoor zucchini is beating the pants off the outdoor zucchini.

Killing spree continues, or not

Yesterday's actuals: a beautiful day! 52/61, no rain

Indoors, everything is rolling nicely along. The basil was starting to look too crowded to me so I decided each of those guys needed a new apartment. I ran out of new potting soil in the process so I had to pilfer some from the only two unseeded squares on the roof in order to repot basil into four new containers. If they are thrive, we will be eating and probably gifting a large amount of basil pesto. Yum! The cilantro is not only not dead but has developed another set of true leaves. Hooray!

Outdoors, all continues thriving! There are a large handful of perky sprouts in each of the squares of the cool box. The spinach, broccoli and bok choy are particularly energetic-looking.

In the warm crop box, the zucchini leaves are starting to grow, if slowly. It may still be irreparably stunted. We'll see. The lettuce that's seat-warming for the tomato plants is sprouting nicely. Still nothing from the beans and the onions.

Another serrano chile sprout

Yesterday's actuals: 53/61, 0.36 in rain

I've got a secondary serrano chile seedling poking its little head up through the soil. It kind of makes me sad, though, since neither of them really has a chance. Sigh.

Yesterday I became obsessed with the bee crisis and briefly considered starting an apiary on the roof to go with my garden. Surely the neighbors wouldn't mind, right?

Indoors, everything else is growing right along. I'm keeping it all watered but haven't done much else. There are too many basil plants (why on earth would I have planted so many basil seeds?!?) but I am going to let them get a little bigger before thinning them. It also is not yet clear which of the two cherokee purple tomato plants will be the stronger, so I am giving them a little more time to fight it out.

Outdoors, everything continues to grow! It's a miracle!