The cherry tomato plants have been incredibly productive so far, with hundreds harvested over the past few weeks. I was even able to give away quite a few containers. I plan on making a roasted red pepper and tomato soup with these tomatoes:
The two tomato plants growing out of the compost bin are doing well so far, it has started to set fruit which what look like plum tomatoes.
These three cherry tomato plants (Sungold & Black Cherry) have been hugely productive. I've been getting a large amount just from these 3 plants alone. Each one probably yields around 200 tomatoes. They look like they won't last much longer which is fine since I have new seedlings ready to go in their place.
Heirloom tomato on the left, Sungold on the right. They're doing a lot better since I placed them in direct sunlight.
The dill plant on the left finally started growing well, while the one on the right is looking sad, with a red, purplish hue. Not sure what's causing it.
Arugula is doing well. Growing lettuce is great since it keeps growing back after cutting it.
Bell pepper plants. They had a really bad infestation of aphids. The ants that made these containers their home were non-stop farming black aphids. No amount of blasting water got rid of them. The leaves started turning black so I tore off almost all the leaves and put a large amount of cornmeal and cinnamon to repel the ants. So far it seems to be working.
Lettuce going to seed.
Big beef - looking really good. Can't wait till these ripen.
Cherry tomato plants have gotten completely out of hand. They've toppled over several times so I put large wooden stakes to support the cages. The containers as you can see are completely falling apart and cracking from the sun so once these plants die I'm going to replace them with 5 gallon buckets since they are comprised of a much thicker and more durable plastic.
Heirloom tomato plant not doing good; the fruits are rotting as they ripen. Strangely they are rotting on the top, not bottom of the tomato so I don't think it's blossom end rot.
A leggy tomato plant (gets only directional sun), started from a cutting.
The basil seeds I collected from the original plant are sloowwwlly starting to grow.
The cilantro, above, and parsley, below, are not too happy in these small containers.
Tomato seedlings.
Three heads of broccoli harvested this week.
Started saving my own seeds for the first time. Collected sungold so far and now black cherry. Glad not to have to spend more money on buying seeds.
