Oh no, I might have murdered my tomato plants!

Today I attempted to re-pot my little tomato plants that you can see growing in this picture. I wanted to separate them so they'd have some more room before I move them to their final container (and when I popped 'em out the roots were starting to grow along the bottom of the container). However, in my attempt to separate the two of them I broke some of the roots.

I'm pretty sure that damaging the roots is a BAD THING, just hopefully not so bad that they die. I guess I'll find out over the next few days if they're going to survive or not. Wish them luck!

Garden Obsession

Since I last posted about my container garden, I decided to dig up the zucchini seeds that I planted in the container that was too small and I planted some bok choy in that container instead. As of today, I officially have some bok choy seedlings. Of course, the picture I took of them was very bad and blurry so you'll have to make do with your imagination on what they look like.

I also picked up a strawberry plant from the grocery store! Its cute furry little stems and leaves called out to me to buy it! Boy, it sure is growing pretty fast, lots of new leaves coming out from when I bought it last weekend. I just hope I can keep it alive long enough to get some strawberries from it.

Of course, my basil is still coming along. It has it's first leaves starting to grow now, so exciting! Now I know I really need to get rid of the extraneous plants here, but I feel a little bad about killing off the ones that I don't need. I wonder if anyone else feels guilty about thinning seedlings.

Container Gardening

So I got this idea into my mind that it would be great to have some fresh vegetables this summer. However, living in a condo, I don't have a yard in which I can make a garden. Therefore, I have turned to containers.

Now I have never gardened before, so I'm not really sure how well this is going to work out. I planted some basil seeds in a yogurt container which I'm keeping indoors, and some zucchini seeds in a container outside. Of course, only later did I read that the container I used for my zucchini is far too small and I discovered that i had planted them wrong and possibly too early. So it remains to be seen if I'll have any that manage to grow.

At least my gardening experience so far hasn't been all bad news. This morning I discovered that my basil is growing! I have to say that discovering this got me thoroughly excited. Now I just hope it lives long enough for me to be able to use it.