My current gardening projects

This is an old wooden cart. I had Ben and Esther sand it and paint it white. Then I asked Esther to sow some seeds in it. This is how it looks about three weeks later:

 

At the back is komatsuna, and mitsuba in front.

The same cart a few days later:

 

We will have to eat the komatsuna soon. Some plants have started to flower, and there seem to be caterpillars of some kind that have gnawed on a few leaves.

Furthermore, I had two mini greenhouses of this kind:

 There is shiso (aka jiso and ao jiso) in this one. But it's not coming on so well.

 

I suspect the climate in this greenhouse was just too humid, because many of the seeds became covered with mold after the first night.

  But some started to germinate anyway. I'll give them a bit more time while giving them water only sparingly.

Unfortunately, the cat kicked over the other mini greenhouse. There was green mizuna and purple mizuna in it. I could save only a few seedlings, which Esther and I transferred to a balcony box.

 When I look at them now (the picture is from Thursday), I believe they are doing quite well in that box.

It always helps when I don't have to do it alone and Ben or Esther (or both) are there to help (or do the work without me).
I have no green thumb at all - I'm no good when it comes to living plants :(