Just a little joy post of some of the things I am growing on the balcony this year that are already making tiny delicious beginnings.
Isnt it great?! My garden is popping off too
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It's so nice. I can't believe the pepper plant is making peppers already since it's only midsummer week. Then again these are on a Soviet style apartment building balcony that has glasses so it has been warm in the sun for months now.
Is the bottom left a cucumber plant? Highly recommend lemon cukes
It is, a variety called piccolino that should be great in a hanging basket.
Been looking at the lemon cukes, have to try one next summer now that we finally got a long term allotment spot too. It's a rental that you get to keep as long as you want and there I'll have space to grow all the things.
Highly recommend some kind of lattice for it to crawl up because it becomes a leviathan after it gets going. I love them a lot, the skin is very thin and I eat them like an apple with a little salt. Does soak up the nutrients pretty quick and needs regular doses of liquid fertilizer but I love them, absolutely mogging the regular cucumber plant I have right now.
It might tolerate a similar pruning that I do to the basic cucumber in a basket. I cut the main wine after it has made about 5-7 sets of leaves and this way it gets very bushy, produces like a monster and doesn't take too much space. Wonder if that would work with the lemon cucumber?
Probably, they're the most hardy variety of cucumber I've grown as long as you keep them good on nutrients.
hell yea. I like early season when all the flowers come out but nothing beats the bounty of big fruiting vegetables like tomatoes/peppers/eggplants
I planted 52 strawberry plants bare root this spring.
Rabbits ate and pulled up 47, even with a fence.
I will take one tomato and one strawberry.
The steak tomato variety is cherokee, it's an heirloom tomato with the most glorious flavour that I never expected to make it in my care or in this spot. I'd send one right over if I could. Along with some strawberries.
Please describe the flavour, since you can't send it to us
They are purple tomatoes that have this sweet and juicy quality to them, I find them to be less acidic than many other tomatoes, there's almost like a watermelon vibe to them. There are also hints of smokiness and a lot of umami in them, they are amazing on a sandwich.
Afaik they are one of the most popular heirloom tomatoes in the US at least. I first got them from a small farmers market type thing where I live and decided to grow them then and there because I fell for the flavor and the purple color.
I am also growing another purple tomato, a variety from Siberia that is supposedly also very hardy and delicious and does well in the climate I'm in.
They sound scrumptious. I love a hearty tomato that can stand up on its own on a crusty bread.
This definitely does that. I do just a slice of sourdough bread toasted with a spread, a big slice of the tomato and just salt and pepper.
Or a little bit of olive oil and basil if I have them.