Project Update!

So, Cameron's little rocking chair project is complete and Addy is in love! :) Cam refinished and then routed her name out on the back. She pulls it around with her all over the house and reads books, plays with toys, and just rocks in it.

As for how my garden grows... it's doing great! :) Well, except for my little spinach plants... a mean ol' caterpillar came and ate them down to nothing. So he got tossed over the edge of the balcony to go eat someone elses' plants! :)

So we've been getting, and eating strawberries!

They are a little small, but not bad for a balcony garden!
(If look closely, you can see where my littlest strawberry lover stole a bite... :)

Since it has taken sooo long for me to get this posted, I'm going to have two updated photos... One about a month old and one from now! Let's start with the beans and eggplants!

The beans sort of sprang up and got huge all at once... and the eggplants surprised me.
I wasn't sure they were coming up at all.

So this is fresh from today. There's a jungle huh...
bottom left corner is an eggplant, the rest are beans
except for a volunteer 4 o'clock flower that came up on its own!

Then onto the tomatoes and green onions...

The monster tomato on the left is from the store,
I planted it the same time I planted seeds for the rest of the plants,
which gave it a very nice head start...
(green onions in the top left corner and bottom right corner of the pic...
and cherry tomatoes on the top right)

So yeah, things are just bigger here...
we've even got some pretty good sized tomatoes on the older plant!

And that leads us to the pepper plants! Another surprise sprouting!

There are hot peppers in the top of the pic, then multicolored sweet bell peppers on the bottom of the pic.

They're growing pretty well...
They've just got some bugs on the bottom of the leaves that I need to get rid of...

These were my first sprouters and faithful 'til the bitter end little sprouts... Cabbage, spinach, and lettuce...

The little green things on the bottom right, just above here...
are lettuce... but I must not have thinned them correctly cause they dried out and died...
the couple of spinach plants on the bottom-ish left got eaten by that nasty little catterpillar,
so all I've got from my original seedlings are my three little cabbage plants over by the white tubing.

I just noticed the holes in the cabbage leaves! Yikes!
And I transplanted some eggplants to keep the cabbage company,
since my lettuce and spinach died...

Since the tomatoes go so crazy and get sooo big, I decided to just have two per bucket... but I had more sprouts, so after giving some to friends, I stuck one in a bucket and we'll see how it does!

And that's how my garden grows! :)