The Brandy Boy and Bush Big Boy tomatoes got their first taste of outside, yesterday. It was incredibly hot and they were only out for an hour or so. The Brandy Boy leaned over in the wind, breeze. Then they came back inside.

Tomorrow some 7 gallon grow bags, now known as big planters here, should arrive tomorrow. Then the repotting and going outside can start again. These things are going to have to be where they're staying, when they get filled. Once the tomatoes are planted in them, there will be no more coming in when the weather isn't favorable. Eeeek!

I'm like a plant parent and protective of them, watching over them, turning them as they follow the sun and checking several times a day to see if they need water. The two pots with the water globes, I even check to make sure water is coming out as it is supposed to! Yup, I'm an overly concerned plant parent...

Hannah the Gardener hasn't been gardening, lately. She's restless, today, because of the storm going over. She didn't used to be bothered by thunder storms, but anymore, she is. She doesn't tear things up, or anything like that, but she's restless and wants me to go in to the bedroom, so she can crawl under the bed and still be close to me. Sweet little Hannah the Gardener.

The sage, I've been watching very closely. It's not been looking healthy. One little plant did die. The two left are looking better, today, I think. Last evening I stuck my finger in their dirt as far down as I could and they were dry. I thought I'd been over watering,, but now I think I haven't been giving them enough. So, last evening I mixed up some GrowTone (plant food) for them and watered until it came out the drain holes!

The little sages were outside yesterday, too. I'm not sure if I should keep them indoors, or let them go out with the tomatoes and peppers. I so want them to survive and thrive! I'd like to add some purple, tri color and golden sage and start a collection. I do love sage plants...

The sweet potato is still growing beautifully! I still haven't planted it. It's just sitting in a pot of soil that I don't water, or do anything to. I'm waiting for the sprouts to get five or six inches tall, then I'll try to root one and actually plant it and start a sweet potato vine. I'd like to start a collection of sweet potato varieties, too.

Plus I'd like to have a collection of African violets. Mine probably wouldn't bloom, so I'll try to find foliage I like. But, oh if they would bloom! I've been looking at some beautiful ones, on line, on The Violet Barn website. Absolutely beautful!

Has it really been over a week since I was here? I can't believe it!

I fed the tomatoes and peppers a couple of days ago and I'm sure they've grown a couple of inches in the past few days. They're growing like weeds!

I think I'm going to get some 7, or 10 gallon grow bags and put the little plants outside. Well, they're not so little anymore and they need more room and more sunlight. My window garden is going 'camping' on the 'patio'!

These things are going to be too big to move around, so they'll have to be where they're going to stay before we put any dirt in any of them. I don't want them down on the cement. That would be too nice for snakes. I don't want any snakes that close to the door!!! There's a kind of a funny story behind that statement...

The sweet potato is growing crazy, too, and it hasn't been fed, or watered. It's just growing from the potato itself. And doing very well!

I only wish the sage were doing as well as the rest of the plants. Well, it's going outside tomorrow. We'll see if that helps it. Maybe it needs more direct sunlight. Maybe it's a wrong type dirt, too rich, or something, so I'll try outside and more light, for starters.

We have ants! They come in and bite me right in my chair! I think Hannah the Gardener has ants instead of fleas, this year. She'll be asleep and all of a sudden start scratching like crazy. I haven't seen any fleas. The ants are right outside the door where she goes out. They bite me. I don't know why they wouldn't bite her, too!

I think the sage is sick...

I think the three little sage plants are sick. They go in steps, with one the worst, one half way and the other looking the better of the three. I don't know if I under watered them last week, or if I've been over watering. I watered last night, well afternoon, and they seemed to perk up and looked brighter and better.

Today I found many more dead, or dieing leaves. I suppose if I under watered last week, it could take the leaves that long to show the signs. I gave them the tall, water tower glass watering globe and hopefully that will regulate and keep them with the right amount of water.

The little pepper plants are looking pretty good, as are the little bush big boys. The brandy boys I question, though, because I'm not used to potato leaf tomatoes and that's what they are. They're growing, but not branching out and getting bushy like I thought a tomato was supposed to do.

I guess there are people who trim the branches so they're just one stem. That's supposed to have something to do with the amount, or size of the tomatoes. I'm not sure which.

There is one little tomato sprout in the kitchen, still. I'm not positive, buy I think it's the surviving Baby Cakes cherry tomato. I'll try to baby it along and see if it'll survive...

The chives seem to be doing well. The latest planting are coming up and growing nearly as thick as the hair on Hannah the Gardener's head. I love chives!

Hannah the Gardener wasn't feeling very well Friday, but by yesterday (Saturday) evening she was back to her normal happy little self. She hasn't bothered the window garden since I took the big pots in there. I'm not telling her there are some little plants, in little make shift pots up there, too!

Yesterday evening I let her out and she wrapped herself (well, the cable tie out) around the legs of both tables and wanted me to come in under the table closest to the door, up by the wall under the air conditioner, and get her untangled. Well, that wasn't happening! I'd just had an incident with low blood sugar and wasn't completely back, yet. But she was standing under the table up by the wall, barking.

Sooo, out I go with a cane in one hand, a square yard stick in the other, a leash around my neck and the yard stick hand leaning on the table. Long story a bit shorter, I got her untangled and we both got back inside.

I was shaking all over, but my little girl was back in the house! It rained today, and do you think she'd go outside? No! She stepped out the door, looked around and right back in. It wasn't even raining right then!