3 2009-06-08T06:25:58Z false I forced myself to go out and work on the balcony again today, and I'm glad I did. Some of those plants wouldn't have lasted much longer I don't think. Potted up the following: 1 (rudbeckia), 3 (salmon yarrow), 4 (Indian blanket?), 6 (large gold coreposis), 7 (Mexican hat), 8 (Alaska shasta daisy), 11 (black-eyed susan), 13 (prairie coneflower?), 14 (lemon gem marigold), Mexican sour gherkin, catnip, stevia. A trip to OSH supplied me with two new planter boxes that I have big plans for. The two currant tomatoes went into one of them, but I ran out of pine bark fines and perlite to finish the other one (it will have the Mexican sour gherkins and something else (luffa?). Moved the geriatric parsley that was in the 8" pot into the big tomato bin with the tomatillos/squash/cucumber/marigolds/morning glories. The plants were seriously potbound - no wonder it was unhappy! I also remembered that last week I also potted up: sweet basil, Thai sweet basil, and aromatto basil into a single 8" pot; fino verde basil into a small clay pot; and the long purple cayenne hot pepper into one of the square planters (with the parsley and lettuce). The Moroccan mint pot-up may have happened last week as well (can't remember). The astibe is half dead - it really hates it in its container. So is the superbells. I suck at remembering to water a hanging basket. It's in the bathroom right now with a IV (a slowly dripping showerhead). I am rather hating the violas as well, as much as I don't want to admit it. They are water hogs and if they go one day without water the next morning they are as flat as if some animal had made a bed of them in the middle of the night. They are also quite leggy, which I don't like, and they don't seem to attract many insects. Shockingly, I am missing the lobelia from last year, and am leaning strongly to pulling the violas and replacing with lobelia. Photos: 1. The happiest nasturtium. Why couldn't it be my favorite color? 2. Volunteer lobelia in the sage pot. These teeny tiny little plants make me smile. 3. Mystery wildflower in the BTB Garden has flowered! Still a mystery, though. 4. Currant tomatoes in their new home. 5. Big tomato planter with newly planted cuke and squash on the left (last week) and tomatillos (on the right) before planting this week. 5 false 60970 false false false Entry 2009-06-07T00:00:00Z DMY 66210 Public 2009-06-08T06:26:00Z 1342 Sunny 59 F