Saturday, July 17, 2010

Garden Update

Well, the weather has been super, super warm. The balcony garden had a horrible attack of aphids. It appears that I was able to save the tomato and pepper plants, but they attacked the strawberry plants relentlessly, even with the stuff I put on it to detour them. So, the strawberry plants have been uprooted and tossed out. The cilantro, dill, and zucchini are not fairing well with the current weather, so I am not going to show them. Not sure they'll be around much longer.

First up is the plants that I am trying to grow:

Coleus is thriving in the heat and has grown a lot!
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Tray one of Cacti are thriving!
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As is tray two of the Cacti!
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Lastly we have the actual veggie plants:

The tomato plants are in a cage to help their growing. Tons of flowers, but no little tomatoes yet!
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Pepper plants are absolutely loving the heat!
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Many, many, many buds on the plants and here is our first baby pepper. Not sure what it is, as the planter is a mixture of different pepper plants. It is starting to look like a sweet pepper, but we shall see.
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5 comments:

  1. I hate aphids! They are just so unstoppable. I'm glad that some of your plants survived. The baby pepper is exciting!

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  2. Your plants look wonderful! All of our rain has affected my garden with the exception of the okra which is doing very well.

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  3. Sorry about the bugs. That is just the pits!! Great on the baby pepper, we have lots of little buds but no peppers yet.

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  4. It's been so long since I've had any sort of garden I don't even know how to make intelligent conversation... My roses are in a terrible state this year, but the deer are leaving my lilies alone, so I guess I can't have everything.

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  5. Your garden looks great! I just got our first tomato the other day, and now we have lots, almost there!
    Growing Cacti from seed???? I've never heard of anyone doing that!
    Vicki

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