Mary’s Basils and Cilantro 12/19/17

My counter is *ugly*, lol.  If I even halfway liked my cabinets I would’ve resurfaced long ago.  But alas it’ll all require a wrecking ball, and I’m not ready for that yet.  Thank you for noticing the tidy part

Around here the houses are over 100 yrs old. I have a young cousin who has a lovely old home and when he married they opted to keep the 'dumb waiter'. People are re-doing them and , yes, the wrecking ball takes a lot of patience with the dust, furniture storage , dwindled living space while it is being done and lots of $$$$.
Luckily for me I had only myself to care for and lived out of the 'den' and bathroom while they tore things up. I had 7 rooms of furniture crammed onto that sunporch and was just waiting for it to collapse under all the weight.I did stay at a motel for a few days while they sanded and finished the floors, though.
It is worth it in the end.

Most of the herbs sprouted during my 10 days away.  Here are all 3 basils.  Out of shot are a sprouted cilantro (that one calls for a toast) and an unsprouted Parsley.  



Edited to add, the following are 2 different damp paper towels each with a different custom cilantro seed meant for the last pod hole.  But look how I got mold/mildew in there.  All of that is green mold, except for the dark fat seed on the left.  That’s never happened before, and I’m afraid to now put this in my garden with the others. Even though there doesn’t appear to be mold on the seeds themselves. So weird.

I like that idea Corinne.

All 3 basils (on the right) are up, and the cilantro is doing great. But the parsley and 2nd cilantro are doing nothing.

Had a sudden growth spurt in 4-5 days.  Especially that cilantro!!

See how I’m getting this dark ring around my cilantro?  Is that ok or no?  Has it happened to you?

I do not recall it happening to me, but that is not say say it has not.   What brand seeds are these?  Are they old?

The following pictures were taken Sunday and Wednesday.  That’s a pretty big difference for 3 days!  





This is the little node that grew after after making the initial prune.