Balcony Update

Just an update on our balcony garden. The bell pepper is blooming again (although it's still covered in aphids), and the eggplant had an open flower most of last week (it too, has aphid problems, though.) The Roma tomato has little green egg-shaped tomatoes all over the top of it, and the Patio variety is blooming like crazy. We've harvested several more tomatoes from the Cherry in the hanging basket, and the green beans are slowly maturing (we had one in our salad the other evening with dinner.) Oh, and the baby birds have turned into awkward...toddlers? We can see them poking their heads up over the edge of the hanging basket as they wait for their parents to bring them food. Cute, but ugly little things.

Well, I just went out to snap a picture of the little green Romas, and what did I find? A baby Gypsy Bell Pepper! Awesome. I hope we have that kind of good luck with the Eggplant, too.

Photographic Evidence

Here is a picture of our hanging basket with leaf lettuce. (At left)

Also, a photo of the majority of our veggies (above) — from left to right, they are as follows: Roma tomato, Patio variety tomato, Gypsy bell pepper, Lavender Touch eggplant, and a pot with some Green Crop bush beans.

The bottom photo (at right)contains (from left to right) snap peas, 3 Bush Crop cucumbers, a pot full of herbs(rosemary, oregano, sweet basil, lemon balm and spearmint in the middle—for juleps) and a pot of radishes on the far right.