Necessary Selection

I'm in the thinning stages with my sprouts. Only the biggest sprout per seed pod wins! I hate this part. It seems to me that if a seed sprouts and makes it, it should be able to make it. But that isn't how it goes. If too may are too close they will choke each other out and then no one wins. I've started doing this earlier than I did last year, I already know the outcome, there is no sense delaying the inevitable and this gives the winners a better start. Still, it hurts. The other confounding factor is space. I only have so many pots and so large a patio.

There was a frost last night, so we're not out of the woods yet. Despite that, the chives keep growing. I'd say they are about five inches tall now.

Indoors, to manage my basil mania I've been putting the clippings into shallow bowels of water to keep them fresh until I use them. Now some of those have grown roots and are growing! I'm thinking pesto is a good idea for supper.