Bees!

Here is one of the regular visitors to the garden. Apparently they haven't all disappeared.

Nature's Bounty

Mr. Tomato Plant is full of fresh plump juicy fruit!

The garden delivers a delicious

tomato

and

basil

salad

A New Hope....

I've just put up a late season batch of green beans, and some zucchini. The little guys are loving the sunny weather and have sprung up really quickly. So far I found one set of wiggly worms on one of the zucchini plants, but other than that they are doing well. Here's a pic of the first sprouter of the green beans.

More Nasty Critters

I am not the only one who wants to eat the food in my garden.

It seems every plant gets some sort of different infestation. The latest one is some weird black dots and tiny caterpillar looking things on the yellow pepper plant.

They have decimated 90% of the leaves and the poor plant is looking pretty pathetic right now. Luckily they haven't gotten to the jalapeno plant yet!

Glacial Progress

Almost three months later now and only in the past 2-3 weeks have we witnessed big changes to the plants.  A very cold and wet May and June did nothing for our friends; the lettuce had an especially hard time of things and leaves a bit to be desired taste wise.  One recently planted nasturtium is showing good signs of life although its friend is really struggling.  Our basil plants suffered a severe aphid infestation and were thrown to the wind.  Although we have good southern exposure from the rear balcony we receive little direct sun in the middle of the day because of the coverage from the balcony above.

New bird feeder; for our friendly finches. 

The tomatoes are finally coming along now but with many nights below 10 degrees earlier on our crop my be greatly diminished.

Tomato flower in full bloom - rather late

Come on Tomato! 

Recently planted are a couple of pole bean plants.  They are looking great and in a few days have soared toward the balcony ceiling. 

 

Gardening at The Court

At the beginning of May, Torill and I moved down the hall to apartment 306. A larger apartment featuring two beadrooms, two baths, and most importantly for the purposes of this blog, two balconies. On the south facing balcony we harbour grand plans of growing our own produce (in minuscule quantities) as well as some ornamental plants. The seeds were sown, water was offered, and we turned to the skies, awaiting warmer temperatures and some sunlight...

Sunflower-Power

The sunflowers are coming out in full force.

After an early season squirrel attack, the future looked rocky for these potent little plants, but the last few weeks of bright sunlight have brought out a new champion for the title of the alpha-sunflower.

His 8 smaller cousins are just starting to bloom and hoping to follow suit.