July begins with a burst of colour! The nicotiana is doing extremely well.


There is only one good looking pole bean on the patio, as you can see below its reached the top of its pole. There are 2 other pole beans on the patio but as we'll soon see I predict they will die soon.

Here's the smaller pot of nicotiana, yesterday it started to wilt a bit - I think the full mid day sun is a bit too strong for it, so after this entry I am going to move it down off the railing.

Look at these East Bunch tomatoes. They are huge! I have thinned the pots removing the straggler or 'runt' from each litter.

In this close-up you can see the first tomatoes out of the gate are the East Bunch Window Box Romas. I counted 18 of them this morning! No sign of any Golden Girls just yet.

Beautiful bushy tomatoes! These are the Golden Girls bushes.

Here is D*'s beautiful floral arrangement pot. The lillies just began to bloom this week. We thought they would be yellow or pink or red...but the stark white seems equally regal and pure. This pot of plants replaced the strawberries that dies 2 weeks after purchase at Grandview Rona. This particular collection of mini petunias and the lilly are from the Flase Creek Flats Home Depot.

Here are some reluctant Hungarian Hot Wax Peppers...they are coming along slowly and just getting ready to bloom. I thought the plant would need to be bigger first...
And now turning from success stories to some of the sadder moments on the patio garden...
I think the soil in this pot is too moist or something...I bet they will die soon. They are turning yellow and drooping.
More impending death...this pole bean is a tragicly stunted underperformer...dead in a week I am sure. Some of the tomatoes in this same pot were loking close to death a week ago but have since turned the corner. I dug them up and found them root bound and drowning inside the old peat pots they were nursed in - somehow they did not find the strenghth to break out of the peat pots so I ripped them up on the bottoms and replanted.
Seen from a far you can see how stunted these two pots are. The tomoatoes that I think will die in a week are on the left...yellower than those on the right.

Here is a closer look at some Hungarian Hot Wax Pepers...last week these were in smalled disposable pot on the railing, but didn't have enough room to grow. So I transplanted them into another pot of failed tomatoes. I pulled them up and dropped in the peppers and now 2 days into their new home they appear to be doing well.

I'll end today's post with a close up of the bug infested daisies. They are nice and tall now but simply covered with aphids and leaf miners.



See you next week, I am hoping to be able to show you the first Golden Girl tomatoes and maybe some pepper blooms.