Hmm.
So now I have 11 tomato plants in the ground (technically 7 in the ground, 4 in containers). I saw flowers on one today, so hooray, I may actually have fruits at some point!
The oldest green bean bushes have started producing something that doesn't look like leaves, so I am hopeful that those will develop into actual bean pods. There are two other bushes at earlier stages of development, so here's hoping those work out, too.
The frisée is growing like mad, but of course it's too freaking hot for it. Fortunately it cools down at night. Today I bound the heads up with twine to see if it will in fact grow white leaves in the middle (the green leaves are bitter, which may be why the bunnies are ignoring it). I am not hopeful. But at least it's fun to see them growing.
Something with teeth has been working on the dwarf basil and catnip--it was a pattern that suggests larvae, not lapins, so I doused the whole place in bug spray. It's organic bug spray, so we'll see how that works out. I am willing to escalate to nasty chemicals, but I would prefer not to if it's not needed.
Set up two more pots of stuff today. One with the weak, spindly seedlings of parsley Gigante and the much more robust seedlings of a dwarf basil. I really hope the parsley manages to sort itself out, because I do love Italian flat-leaf parsley. The basil is part of my MASSIVE FUCKTON OF BASIL that I am not eating nearly fast enough. I keep clipping bits of it and putting it in the freezer for later use out of season.
The other pot (well, large window box) got the rest of the catnip seedlings (looking fairly strong) and four brussels sprouts seedlings. I think maybe I had put the others out too early, so they died. I did a little something different with these. I suspect they may be too crowded in that box, though. Perhaps that will slow down their development, because I really don't want them to form sprouts before September, or even later if possible. I will probably start a couple more seedlings in a couple of weeks, so they won't reach maturity until October or possibly even November, which is exactly right for brussels sprouts.
Aaand, I still have extra basil and tomato plants available to anyone in the Philly area who wants them, because I can't bear to just chuck them. They really seem to want to live; they're quite robust, particularly considering they don't get enough sun.