Growing Baby Robins

Time to update you on the robins' progress. The egg photo below was taken on May 20, and the brand-new-baby photo was taken on May 22. Here is one from two days later, on May 24:


And today, May 27:


My, they grow so quickly! It really is amazing to see the feathers take shape and the bodies change so much in just a few days. We feel really lucky to be witnessing this.

The roma tomato plant is still growing like crazy. It has lots and lots of fruits of varying sizes on it, though we've had to take some of them off of the plant because they suffered from blossom end rot. We've probably lost 7 or 8 baby fruits to that so far. The largest fruits are probably 3 inches wide and 4 or 5 inches long at this point, but still green. The cilantro in the pot with the roma plant isn't looking too good; it's thin and yellowed in spots. We didn't expect the roma plant to get so big, and it's probably hogging all the sun from the cilantro. We'll know better next time to give the cilantro its own pot.

The tomato plants in the raised bed have suddenly started to grow taller; they're probably 14-16" tall at this point. The basil has some black spots on it due to the cold-ish weather we had last week, but it's coming back now. The parsley still looks good, too. The peppers, though, look pretty sickly. The green pepper plant has one little fruit on it, but the others look almost like they did the day we planted them - except not quite as healthy. We're not too optimistic on them. We'll just continue to wait and see.