A carnival of technology

Q: What the hell am I going to do with all that cilantro?
A: Nothing, it died

I’m starting to see the shortcomings of trying to grow plants on a covered balcony that only gets full sun for about half the day.  The cilantro didn’t make it, but everything else seems to be doing ok.  I planted some flat-leaf parsley in its place, since I use more parsley anyway, and that’s going confusingly.  Pretty much all of the original leaves died after planting it, but there’s a lot of new growth.  I don’t know how that’s going to go.  The curly parsley is still going strong.  I gave the mint a big, flat pot so it can go all ground-covery, and it’s growing great.

I planted some basil that’s doing pretty well, and the tomatoes are growing slowly but steadily.  I don’t think the peppers are going to make it.  Thyme and rosemary are doing great.  And then there’s the garlic.  I cut off some of the scapes once to make some delicious pesto, and dang but they grew back mighty quick.  In light of this I think I’m instead going to try to just keep growing scapes.  I can buy garlic bulbs at the supermarket, and scapes are something delightful that I can’t get anywhere else.  Yay garlic.  I guess I’ll have to find some more ways to cook with it.