It looks like I only lost a couple of seedlings when they blew off the porch, and like buttered toast, landed top down. Tomorrow, the calendula will be planted in the raised bed, and I may transplant the surviving tomatoes into a larger pot or two, which will mean real dirt and not having to freak out over whether or not they are watered enough or too much.

Additionally, a couple of the lettuce seeds have begun pushing up through the dirt! Naturally, while I was hovering over them gleefully, Sasha stopped by for a visit, and for some crazy reason decided to hop into the Earthbox. Now one of the tiny lettuce seedlings is pushing up in the middle of a big fat cat paw print. Argh! Could I just get a break once! Silly cat. Hopefully more of them will come up, though I suspect since they got rained on pretty hard that one afternoon, some of them will have more dirt to push through than they should have and some of them likely got washed to places I didn’t plant them.

The radishes are doing fine. Well, one or two of them have evidence of some sort of creature, a non-bug creature, tearing a few leaves off, but other than that, they are growing well. We should have some radishes in another week or two!

Oh, and there was one more gardening disaster related to last night’s storm. Even though I pulled the plants into the most sheltered area I could, the only branch on Mr. Stripy (tomato) that had leaves on it somehow got broken off. Maybe it will spout some more, but when that happened to the Better Boy, that was the end of that plant. This might be for the best. Instead of planting last year’s tomato plants in my beds, perhaps I will buy a couple of plants at the nursery instead. I don’t have any determinate tomatoes (bush type as oppose to vines) planned, and I had wanted to try some.

I’m going to go knit on that shawl some more. It would totally go with the outfit I have on right now, and I am so eager to start wearing it.