Windowsill report and garden journal

There are now four sprouting floaters among the hippeastrum seeds, four more than I have space for. I have trouble committing plant infanticide, so I will probably start a new pot for them.

The parsley started to sprout yesterday.

Out back the Class of 2009 is looking a lot better than it has for awhile. I think the plants were self-pruning, sloughing off the weakest leaves, and now some of them are starting some new growth. All the back yard hippeastrums seem to have weathered the heat wave in the space that spared them the afternoon sun.

I brought Valerie's sansevieria out back for a hosing etc. The portion of the plant that had bloomed has died but there's plenty more where that came from. I don't believe there's any drainage in that pot, which makes me nervous. I may turn it on its side and have Roy drill a hole or two.

The matchbox peppers (my mistake, they aren't firecracker peppers) are fruiting abundantly out front. I don't know that we'll be growing a year's supply of peppers out of one big planter, but it's nice to have all we need for now and some for later.

I haven't seen a fungus gnat upstairs for a week. I've drenched the infected plant twice.