Our peas and beans are really starting to stretch and climb after some recent rains and warm days, which is always very exciting. However, our purple flowering raspberries have started showing off and they took my breath away.
What’s growing on with you all?
Alt text: an image of various peppers (and one tomato) on a small wooden plate. There are small green peppers, small red peppers, a large curved cayenne, a small bell pepper, and two medium sized green peppers, either anaheim or poblano I don’t know I’d have to check. The red peppers are starting to dry.
I done grew me a garden on my balcony ma! This isn’t all I’ve harvested this season either, wife has turned my cayennes into a hot sauce already, and the red peppers you see here were turned into a hot-paste-base… thing! And my tomato plant keeps giving me fat and juicy bois every week or so. Nothing crazy, just a big red one on my balcony for wife to cut up and enjoy. I personally hate them, but c’est la vest and an alligator chest, as they say.
There’s catnip and pumpkins and sunflowers I’ve grown from seed, and mint and basil and, man, I love having this little garden out there so much :)
You’re crushing it! Hearing how happy this garden is making you just fills my heart, and these photos make my mouth water
The heat has been kicking my little plot into overdrive. I had to raise up the pest net to allow the little ones to grow safely… But they’re also crowding the heck out of each other at the moment. I think the greenbeans might kill out the less leafy carrots, but we’ll see how they get along.
Best of luck! My beans tend to run roughshod over their companions.
This year is my first time gardening. I planted some herbs in a raised bed in the balcony (lavender, mugwort, catmint and some pink parasol) and they are slowly growing.
I also got “Moonlight” roses and the first one opened some days ago (after constantly checking on them lol). I didn’t expect them to be so beautiful and smell so good. I will be collecting the petals to make rose tea.
Hey great job! I know some folks who struggle to get roses half as beautiful as what you’ve grown! I’m sure those others will catch up in their own time
I’ll jump on the raspberry bandwagon - here’s the handful I got today off of the black raspberry bush by my shed - quite a few still ripening there as well!
The heatwaves been taking its toll. Just trying to keep everything alive
I hope you’re hydrating yourself as devotedly as you are your plants!
Oh yeah iced tea by the gallon
Sweet or unsweet? Lemon or no? Choose wisely, traveler.
Unsweet, sometimes lemons if I’m not being lazy
I forgot an onion in a cotton bag and it started sprouting with the heat. Thinking of planting it; should I just bury it with the shoots exposed? Want to get some paprika to deter deers too.
You might only get green onions off of it at this point, but burying it like you asked will certainly get you more, and more nutritious ones. I vote yes!
I plant garlic during the fall for this reason! Fresh garlic chives on my ramen with an egg, yes yes :D
Delish! I pulled about two pounds of scapes yesterday for making pesto
the yard is very crunchy. we haven’t had rain in a few weeks (2-3?), but it looks like it could rain this weekend. i did water my few potted plants that live on the porch since they were looking especially thirsty.
I’m happy to trade you some rain, just send some of your sun our way.
Here’s hoping you get the right amount and timing of rain so your plants can be happy!
