There is a Zucchini growing!

There’s a Bell Pepper growing!

There are Tomatoes growing!

The cursed Hostas are flowering!

I think the break in the rainless-but-humid-as-hell heat wave has prompted a lot of action in the plants that have survived so far. Very pleased here.

Bonkers nature-made commentary on the humidity: the stalk of the tomato plant was developing a mat of root growth, seemingly because the air itself was so water-logged.

I haven’t done much outside this week, other than moving a snail I found in the recycling bin out back to the compost area – good for that wee lad and good for my purposes, as we’d both rather him helping the compost rather than munching on the living garden or crushed to death in the bin.

For the house plants, I trimmed and propagated the Purple Heart, who was getting a bit too leggy for my tastes.

It was also time to deadhead the flower stalk from Sebastian, since it’s advised to do so once the flowers are done blooming, to help the air plant redirect its energies to making pups. We’ll see if this works out in a few more months.

Yet another Caesar descendant found itself dying, so I had to deal with that deteriorating situation. I snipped off and tossed the definitely-a-goner leaf and decided to just propagate the other leaf from the rosette, instead of trying to salvage it with its possible infected root ball. Most of my other attempts to save the leaves attached to the infected ones ended tragically, so here’s to hoping propagation works for him.