8:56am,  62°F, Overcast
Oh jeez. I get busy and then I neglect this blog (and my plants, to a degree). Forgive me, people that read this and plants on my balcony and stuff! Thankfully the plants are none the worse for wear.
When I did my initial put-plants-outside-again cleanup and stuff, I trimmed back the thyme I [...]

8:17am, 57°F, Sunny
Life has been so busy, especially with trying to prepare for vending my candles at the West Windsor Renaissance Faire this upcoming weekend. I hope I do real well, but to do that I need to have enough stock, so there’s a mad candle-making scramble.
But anyway! Plants!
My mom had told me that my [...]

8:18pm, 69°F, Fair
Last week, an exciting discovery was made at work. Of course, the Lowe’s garden department gets tomatoes– for one, the Bonnie plants have a lot of tomato choices– but we also get some non-Bonnie. I was planning to pick some small plants up at some point, since my attempt at growing them from [...]

5:17pm, 64°F, overcast

I started today off (well, sort of, I guess it was already 11am) by planting carrots at my boyfriend’s place. They aren’t really great for containers since they need room to grow downwards, but he had a patch o’ dirt that seemed to be free of most things. He’s out towards the coast, [...]

8:39pm, 53°F, Fair
I don’t know how, but somehow, yesterday, I totally missed the fact that the pot containing some gladiolus bulbs (which bloomed two years ago but not last year) and rain lilies had buds off of some of the lily stems. Truth be told, I’d forgotten about the lilies completely and just figured my [...]

10:12pm, 74°F, Fair
First off, I am absolutely loving this warmer weather. Today, working out in the garden center at my job, I was actually almost too warm, but that was fine by me! And then I ate ice cream with my coworker which made it even better. But that’s besides the point.
I meant to post [...]

9:18pm, 58°F, Cloudy
I had a busy weekend, and then today I worked a 9 hour day, so there really hasn’t been too much going on in balcony-land. However, a quick look earlier revealed some seedlings coming up in the pot with the lettuce and komatsuna seeds. Fingers crossed that it is, indeed, one of the [...]

Lemon Basil & Lemon Balm, neither of which were originally supposed to be in this pot. But hey, I won’t complain.

My Serrano pepper plant is going strong, and I need to start using these little hot peppers! There are ones already red, and ones that are green, and more on the way, by the look of it. Hooray, spicy peppers! I should also mention that this pepper plant was, against most suggestions, overwintered inside. I [...]

The pepper plants are doing alright. The Serranos are doing well, recovered nicely from overwintering. The real experiment will be seeing how the produce does. The Jalapeno is a little less lively, but puttering along. Again, not sure if we’ll be seeing any peppers. Looking forward to finding out.
As for the newest, the seedling that [...]