Produce

The early stages of our mini garden:

Tomatoes and marigolds

Carrots, beans, radishes, lettuce, jalapenos, cucumbers, and onions

Vessel's "beanstalk" that came from a little seed he found.

Here are a few little things I picked from our balcony on Saturday. It's not much, but it is fun to see I can actually grow something! Jalepenos, carrots, green beans, and green onions.

Sad to say, my radishes did not survive this year. My cucumbers did not do well either. I think that had to do with being planted in a pot smaller than the space they needed to grow and flourish. My tomatoes started to get blossom end rot, so I had to find some calcium plant food for it and now it is doing much better. Hopefully I'll get a few tomatoes from that plant. My lettuce did awesome in the beginning and I harvested some of it when it was still young and sweet. Now it is just bitter and starting to die. I still have a lot to learn about gardening....

Here's what we got from the farm this week. Lots of good food I can't grow. :)
Squash, carrots, beets, chard, green peppers, cucumbers, green beans, heirloom tomatoes, and cabbage. Mmmmmmmm!

Peppers!

Here are some of the peppers we grew on our balcony! To most, it probably seems a bit stupid to get so excited about something so small. But I am proud of myself because this is the first time I've grown actual food successfully! It might not be from a big garden in our yard, but I guess you have to work with what you've got, right? And pots work just fine! I've also got some tomatoes ripening, some beans, carrots, onions, lettuce, and cucumbers. The only thing that failed were the radishes. Due to the hot days we've been experiencing, they bolted so the root will no longer grow round and fat like a normal radish. I will, however, have little radish pods that I can harvest for the seeds. But hey, yay for the peppers!