I wasn't sure how tomato plants pollinate and since we don't exactly have bees in our house I thought I should look it up. I found a website that said, while tomatoes have both male and female parts on the same flower ("they're hermaphrodites," my friend Anna commented), they don't always get pollitnated properly if you grow them inside. This is because the flowers need the wind to blow pollen onto the stamen. So, it is recommended that you "vibrate" your tomato plants between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. (when the pollen is released) to get everything in the right place. Since I am at work during the day I told Kyle he would have to "vibrate" our tomatoes. He told me he would open the window.
More good news: more rosemary is growing!! In addition to the lone sprout I had before, I now have FOUR more rosemary sprouts (I have decided that the other one is indeed a thyme seed).
At this rate I may be able to cut some rosemary for Christmas!
The other herbs are slowly maturing -- they seemed to stall last week but over the weekend have been growing again. The dill actually resembles dill now and I have been sorely tempted to pluck off a little fern from the top. I suppose I know how the cat feels -- he just has less self control.
And now, the bad news:
My poor cukes. I go back and forth between hoping just one or two will survive and deciding what else I will plant there.
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