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15 Jun 2008
Growth/Pic Update 1 Tomato 'Sweet Million' (C) and Sunny Balcony garden
This is my first tomato grown from seed (sorta like baking a cake from scratch instead of a mix, I love it!). One raceme is about bloomed out, with fruit appearing on each pedicel for a total of 17 tomatoes. Another raceme has now split with three distinct end points and a total of about 37 flo...
Overcast 14°C / 57°F
15 Jun 2008
Growth/Pic Update Kitty's Grass Showing True Leaves and Shady Balcony garden

Overcast 14°C / 57°F
15 Jun 2008
Growth/Pic Update Sunflower (D) and Sunny Balcony garden
So far about 25 cm from the soil level, and growing quick!
Overcast 13°C / 55°F
14 Jun 2008
Potting Up Gardenia (2008) Potting Up and Livingroom garden
Once it finished blooming all the ready buds, I potted this up into a larger pot with some nice acidic soil.
Sunny 18°C / 64°F
14 Jun 2008
Potted Up French Marigold (2) Potting Up and Sunny Balcony garden
I potted 3 of these up into a container for the shady balcony.
Cloudy 16°C / 61°F
14 Jun 2008
Potted Up Stephanotis Potting Up and Livingroom garden
Moved this plant into a larger pot. From what I have read this plant does well with confined roots, so I added some large rocks around the plant to give it less space to grow into (I needed to put it in a largish pot to support the new trellis). I filled in the plant with soil for Mediterranean...
Cloudy 15°C / 59°F
13 Jun 2008
Planted out Thai Basil 'Siam Queen' Planting Out and Sunny Balcony garden
Planted out two seedlings in with the Sweet Million.
Overcast 14°C / 57°F
13 Jun 2008
Planted out Tomato 'Sweet Million' (C) Planting Out and Sunny Balcony garden
I have moved this guy into his final container, a large 40 L pot on the balcony. I planted some Thai basil and a marigold in the container with it. The basil should help improve the strength of the tomato plant (so I’ve read) and the marigold should help keep the pests away.
Cloudy 15°C / 59°F
13 Jun 2008
Sprouting Kitty's Grass Sprouting

Rainy 13°C / 55°F
11 Jun 2008
Blooming Watermelon 'Sugar Belle F1' (A) Flowering