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Looking good!
One thing to bear in mind, planters lose water faster than in the ground. You want to be careful on high sunlight days, as water can magnify sun rays (so leaves with water droplets on them will scald), so try and get the ground around them. Mulch is your friend, will stop evaporation from the top layers.
If it's a REALLY hot day, no matter how much water you give them they may look wilty - this is normal. Plants will pull water out of their leaves in high heat so they don't boil. Check how they look when the sun goes down, you should see them starting to plump back up as the plant sees the boiling danger has passed.
Thanks for the warning Taleya! I would 100% have thought they'd died lol. I also didn't realise water would do that, well I mean, I knew it could do that, just not that it'd affect the plants too much
no worries, had to talk His Lordship out of a tree more than once when that's happened! particularly leafy greens are a bugger for it, they have hundreds of fine capillaries all through the leaf that carry water. Generally check on them when the suns at the level it is now - plenty of light left, no heat, no blaze. If still wilty then, water. And don't be afraid to stick a finger in the soil! up to about the middle knuckle - the top end of your finger should have lovely damp soil sticking to it, if not, water deeply