Tomato Graduation and Passiflora Mollissima

Ahhh can't believe it's that time already! My lil tomato plants  are gettin' so big! Well, not like huge or anything... just tall and spindly :)  Their first true leaves are starting to appear now, so I decided that it is about time to "graduate" them to bigger pots.


my bustling garden table with 200-some jiffy pots -->

Aaaand here's my planting operation. Complete with my "helpers" (the cats) aka "stinkers" who want all the attention. They get jealous of the tomatoes ;)

<-- This is precisely how my little stinker "helps" me plant. You can imagine how much work gets done ;)

In spite of all the *ahem* distractions, the short time-span (about 2 hrs), and the extra work of having to prepare my own pots out of old yogurt/sour cream/juice containers and mix two different types of potting soil, I managed to get about a dozen tomatoes graduated. Not too bad! I was a little concerned (for the tomatoes' sakes) about it only being 50 and a little windy, but the sun showed up and made things better.  

Now about the time I get this finished, the peppers will probably be ready to graduate. That's just my luck!  I'm also having to balance all this gardening with building blitz crunch-time and food prep, so that makes life interesting for sure. I'm probably going to have a pretty packed pair of weeks coming up, then maybe after the building blitz I will have a moment or two to breathe? One can hope! Life sure is crazy-busy, but I kinda like it that way I guess. I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I had nothing to do!

In other news, I am officially a successful guinea pig! Yessiree, pictured above is a little sproutlet of Passiflora Mollissima: Banana Passionfruit. It seems that my good friend and fellow garden-lover Josh thinks of me as a gardening guinea pig, and wanted to see if I could grow this. Well, it's not the first time I've been associated with rodenthood, and I don't much mind since he helps feed my ever-growing exotic seed fettish ^_^  mwahaaha! And I was, in fact successful. (Where's my prize?!)  Of course, after the fact I find out I did it the hard way. Ok, I should really get a prize for that, dontchya think? Oh well. Maybe it's a prize in itself. :)  Only thing is, now I'm not quite sure what to do with the little squirt. Apparently it's hardy in zone 9-10 but I'm in zone 6. Yay. ...And I still don't have a green house :(  So I'm exploring my options.... It sure smells good though!  Now I just gotta figure out what to name him... :)