How does your garden grow?

Answer:  Rapidly, and with a wide variety of cute names.  Of course, the plants themselves have not started to grow yet, but our array of seed-filled pots and containers has gotten bigger and bigger over the last few days.  Yesterday we started small:  Adrian and Victoria planted four basil plants (all named Basil), and Mallory, Harini, and I planted five geraniums and three zinnias (with adorable and amazing names).  Mallory's two geraniums bear the moniker of Batman characters, Harini and I gave ours the names of Merlin actors/characters (Merlin, Arthur, Colin Morgan, and Bradley James), and then Harini named the last two after Mallory and I, as revenge for the jade plant.  That was just during lunch yesterday, so we didn't exactly have a ton of time to plant.  Today, however, we stayed after school to water the garden, and since we had a fairly large group of five, some of us planted while others dealt with the watering.  That is to say, Jess and Victoria handled the watering, Adrian performed a transplantation of Increase who is now safe and sound in a pot in the greenhouse, and Harini and I filled our boots with planting (and naming.  Mostly after Merlin characters).  We'd decided to plant snow peas and hot peppers in the greenhouse (possibly to sell to teachers, depending on how well they do), and since I'd found out snow peas wouldn't do that well in a normal pot because they need space to lean, I'd hoped to be able to find a window box lying around in the botany lab.  Unfortunately, there weren't any, but we made do with two large circular pots in which we planted a bunch of snow pea seeds.  Victoria had not yet left for watering at that point, so she helped me fill the planters with soil and named one, and I named the other "Viceroy" in her honour.  Next we planted hot pepper seeds in eight small pots (we discovered that they need to be grown that way, and then we can transplant the ones that grow into bigger pots), and as it was just Harini and I by this point, they all pretty much ended up Merlin-ified.  After that, we planted some normal peppers, some thyme, and some coriander.  Earlier today at lunch I was absent because I had an orthodontist appointment, but the rest of the group was working in the botany lab then as well, and Harini planted some fenugreek and Jessica a black-eyed Susan.  And that rounds out our planting to date, save for Increase Jr, a small portion of Increase that Adrian is attempting to grow into a new plant in Mallory's "Cactus County".  It's all very exciting; we'll probably be planting a bit more once we know exactly what we want to put in the garden proper, but still!  What we've got so far has already been so much fun to do, despite being a lot of work.  We need to make sure all the plants stay watered, and every plant has their own special conditions that we must ensure they receive; for example, the geraniums need to be kept in darkness until they germinate, so we keep plates over top of their pots except for when they are being watered.  It all doesn't seem like work though; it's just something new and exciting and worthwhile.  We'll have to be even more diligent coming in at lunch hours now to make sure all our plants stay watered, but I'm quite looking forward to it.  I hope it's not too long before all our seeds begin to sprout!