Balcony Garden Update

The garden is thriving. Gimli has one tomato growing and hopefully Legolas will produce as well. We noticed today he was sporting some not so happy branches so I did some amateur pruning. We have decided to name our 2 pepper plants Pepper Pots and Gwyneth (think Iron Man). Pepper Pots has 3 peppers coming in nicely, but Gwyneth is a bit sickly. However, she has produced one small pepper the size of a cherry tomato. With time, it will probably get bigger.


We got our first meal from the garden. By meal I mean salad. We added grilled chicken and mango and red onion with a homemade vinaigrette. It was quite delicious.

We are also drying our herbs to use them later.


I finally got Joe to transfer some of the plants out back to a place where they can spread their vines without being closed in by our small balcony. He refuses to remove all the pumpkin plants however so we will soon have to use a machete to get through to all of the plants and water them.