Repotting

I was beginning to worry that the celery and parsley that Chaudhry Sahab had given me desperately needed repotting. They looked so crowded--three plants each in a little five-inch pot. I was about to get Amjad to take me to the nursery for more pots, but lo and behold, I noticed a whole pile of them nestled behind a tree in the garden below! Perfect. I carried them up to the terrace and with the help of a large screwdriver (in the absence of a trowel) I repotted them all. Not sure what I'm actually going to do with all this parsley and celery but hopefully they'll grow. I've also moved to a room that looks out onto the terrace; it's nice to be able to look out at my plants anytime.

Lovely pots! They were free!

Another view of the pots, look how crowded those celery plants are.

At first I placed the celery artfully around my big pots, but have since moved them to a shadier spot because it's getting hotter every day.

All the repotted parsley lined up in a row with the flowers.

My favorite thing about these pots is that they are roughly the same sized but mismatched just a bit; because they are mostly handmade they have slightly different, interesting shape variations. Some of them are a bit more conical, some of them are a bit lopsided, but they have a nice kind of wabi-sabi  harmony.

Celery and parsley before repotting. The 8-inch pots show about the same kind of variation in shape.

I've also got more sprouts! Two more bitter melon (for a total of three) and another squash (for a total of three). Cucumber is lagging sadly behind with only one sprout. I planted four or five seeds in each pot so I'm hoping to see more plants soon. Even the okra is beginning to come up; there were four or five new little shoots this morning when I went out to water them. 

Finally, my cat visitor has been back. He loves this particular spot in the mornings. At night he prefers fighting with other cats out back.