The garden is (mostly) doing well

So here's an update on the garden:

The tomato plants look fabulous. They're already flowering. We were supposed to put the stakes in last week, so that later when we have to support the stems we wouldn't hurt the roots driving the stakes in. Hopefully we'll remember to get them in tomorrow!

The pepper plants look...leafy. I don't know really what I'm supposed to do to take care of them. They look healthy enough, but I think for the most part I'll probably neglect them and hope some peppers come out of it.

The eggplant plant doesn't look like it is changing much. I wonder if I planted it too soon.

The chives and cilantro look great. I realize I don't know what to do with the chives. I don't remember cooking with chives ever.

The basil in the pots are growing well, but the ones in the ground keep changing their minds. One of the four in the ground died and we pulled it out. Turns out the stem had been damaged. It was probably damaged all along and I just didn't notice. Just like I didn't notice that I was buying 48 plants instead of twelve. Yesterday I cut the tops off two of the best basil plants because pruning is good for them and we were making a pasta dish that needed some basil. Yummy.

For the heck of it I tried growing basil from seeds, and instead of putting one or two seeds in a little cell pick, I sprinkled 5-10 because I figured most of them wouldn't come up. Well, all of them came up! So now I'm trying to figure out whether I'm going to throw away all the extra seedlings or if I'm going to be silly and actually try to find places to plant them.

The sunflowers are coming up too! We saw a least five seedlings the last time we checked. I know we planted more than five but less than ten.

Finally, we bought seeds for green onion and green beans. I figured green onions don't take up much space and have shallow roots. As for the green beans, well, there was a small space left in the garden, and we needed beans.

I'm not posting a picture of this, because right now there isn't much to see and our camera isn't good enough to take a picture of a seedling. Tonight it rained very hard. I hope the plants enjoyed it.