herbs

adrian_turtle messaged me this afternoon "Hello again. Check your porch."

On the front porch were three small herb plants, two packets of seeds, some flower pots, and a bag of potting soil.

This wasn't exactly a surprise: we'd talked some about what herbs cattitude and I would like to grow, and she even mentioned that she had a cunning plan for getting them for me. (For coronavirus-related reasons, neither of us is going to the gardening center for a while.)

I brought the plants indoors, and quickly discovered that our tentative plan of growing herbs on a kitchen windowsill would not survive the intense interest of the cats. So, they're on a porch windowsill, and we are going to keep an eye on the forecast: the porch is enclosed but unheated, so basically at the outside temperature, sometimes with a time lag.

The porch mostly contains some overflow storage (canned goods, yams, paper towels) and boxes awaiting recycling. We want to spend time out there when it gets warm, but the coronavirus happened before we had time to shop for porch furniture.