merging into the outdoors

Everything that's going to sprout.. has. I guess. Which means no lettuce this year- none of the seeds from last year ever came up. I also only have one cucumber plant, even though I planted at least 20 seeds.

But on the other side.. I have tons of bean plants. Or rather I did before I put them outside for a few days and then into their outdoor window boxes- two days before tons of wind and rain.

They currently look really, really unhappy. Two of them are definitely broken and the rest just look miserable. But.. most of them do have some smaller leaves that I'm hoping will keep growing and revive the rest of the each plant.

I left one plant inside just in case the outdoor transfer didn't go well. And now I'm really glad I did, because when I looked at it closely yesterday..

..there were already 4 or 5 little beans growing! The pepper and tomato plants are small, but some are outside already in small pots- just waiting for their time to go into the window boxes as well.

The onions are still so very small that I'm not sure they are even growing anymore. A lot of the flowers are sprouting up like crazy and before long every available surface will be covered with daisies, poppies, and whatever else it was we planted. Also, very unbelievably, I finally have some sunflowers. There are some just sprouted ones outside and one pot of larger ones inside (and honestly I am afraid to put them outside).

Two of the three pumpkin plants are still growing. I put the one outside, but it was too early in the season and it just couldn't take it. So now I only have to figure out what to do with two pumpkin vines, instead of three.

Overall I feel like this garden is a few weeks ahead of last years, which is good because a lot of the tomatoes still weren't done growing until November.