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Summer is here

2023-05-29

Looks like spring is over and summer is now here. Time to have a look at our gardening efforts on the balcony.

In case you missed it, we're trying to grow various vegetables on our balcony this year. This post is an account of how the plants are doing, since it seems summer is here.

Oh by the way. If you're wondering about all those wooden skewers in the pots: We have an issue with pigeons routinely raiding our balcony for god-knows-what. The skewers are effective measures to keep them out of our pots. ;)

Gherkins

One Gherkin plant died, others are noticably smaller than some others. This will be interesting to watch. It is curious that the Gherkins seem to grow thick stems before they grow high.

Photo of our Gherkin plants

Tomatoes

They're all doing well. I had transplanted three of the six tomatoes into bigger pots a while ago but sadly didn't have enough pots for all of them. We transplanted the remaining three yesterday. Those transplanted first are noticably bigger (to be expected). Interestingly all the smaller ones — those that were transplanted later — are having flowers while the others are only now starting to bud.

Photo of our Tomato plants

Herbs

We don't have many herbs this year, but they all seem to be doing alright:

The Basil is slowly growing. The plant is a year old and didn't take winter in our appartment too well.
The Rosmary is turning into a small little bush, gone are the days of long spindly branches.
The Sage is doing well, it seemed to have helped that we trimmed it down. We think it likely that the pot was too densely populated.

Sage

Basil

Chillis

The Indian chilli seeds seem dead. The european ones have grown into about 15cm plants by now.

Chilli plant

Onions

For fun we planted some tiny onions in one of the grow bags. Their leaks are growing nicely.

Onion plant

Potatoes

Two grow bags were seeded with 5 potatoes each. They've been growing like mad. I've topped up the soil three times every two weeks, but now the grow bags are full to the brim. I'm excited about this experiment.

Two grow bags chock-full of potato leaves

Ginger

We thought the ginger wasn't doing anything but by now we can see small knobules growing. No stems or leaves yet. This one will take time.

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