Aerogarden

Cherry tomatoes, chives, jalapeno, bachelor's button

Cherry tomatoes

Just for fun I uploaded a pic of a pumpkin I sculpted
in 2007.

Micro-toms

Check out how great the micro-toms are doing!

First tomato in the micro-tom Aerogarden

I welcome these colorful flowers during the cooler months!

Mysterious Egg

Does anyone know what this might be? I found a soft-shelled egg in my yard and this was inside it. The 3 orange items were all attached at the one end, then I broke it into the 3 pieces to see what was inside - the inside appears to look like mud, but it's not. I tried to poke it with a stick but it is rubbery. So is the orange stuff. 

I found this at the base of a young citrus tree. But it's not a citrus fruit. It was inside a white soft-shelled egg.

The inside of what I think is an eggshell is actually lined with pouches of clear gel-based liquid , like a cushioning for the contents. This thing might be an alien!

If you know what this is, please comment below!

Cherry Tomatoes!

Here are some shots I took of the main Aerogarden.

Cherry Tomato Plant, Chives, Bachelor's Button, Jalapeno

I really tried to get in close for some of the cherry tomato shots.  I am so surprised that this plant is producing so quickly.  It has been 6 weeks since I planted it, and I have not even raised the light yet!

I have been pruning the cherry tomato plant pretty much every day.  It grows close to the lights, but I don't raise them because I am waiting for the jalapeno pepper plant to catch up in height.  So I have been "taking a little off the top" each day.  Occasionally I give it a little trim on the sides if it grows into the chives or out the back or sides of the Aerogarden.  Leaves don't do much good if they're not getting light!  

Cherry tomato and flower buds

Now I don't know if this extra pruning made the plant start producing early or what, but I don't remember getting tomatoes this quickly the last time I grew cherry tomatoes in the Aerogarden.  I'll have to revisit my blog from December planting to compare the timeline.

Cherry tomato and flower buds

Sometimes the flowers approach the light, and I worry that they may burn.  I don't want to lose tomatoes just because I have to wait for that jalapeno!  So what I have been doing is re-positioning a nearby tomato leaf on top of the flowers to protect them, should the plant get a little too high.

3 cherry tomatoes hiding out in the plant

Last season I remember pruning a lot more heavily.  I would not prune every day, only when I felt like the plant was getting out of control.  Then I'd do a mass pruning all at once.  Maybe that stressed the plant more than these little mini daily prunings I have been doing this season.  I guess I am learning little techniques as I go!  It sure is fun, seeing the fruits of my labor, as they say!  :)

I had to pretty much put my face in the plant to see these
guys hiding out in the middle.

Overall shot of this Aerogarden

Bachelor's Button

This is the first time I am trying to grow a flower(s) in the Aerogarden.  I threw it in there simply because I just wanted to fill the gap with something interesting.

The flower is called Bachelor's Button.  When it blooms, it should be blue.  I think there are 2-3 sprouts in this pod.  This is a welcome addition, as the temps have cooled down outside and the flowers will start to die soon if we get a frost or two like last year.  Last year's frost wiped out all of my penta plants outside as well as 2 or 3 small, new hibiscus bushes.  Fortunately these plants grown back after being heavily pruned.  The pentas came back in full force, but the hibiscus are growing very slowly and I am not sure they will ever fully recover.  I may reattempt hibiscus one day.

Bachelor's button

The Aerogarden - Cherry tomato, Chives, Bachelor's
Button, Jalapeno

Tomatoes outside

Upside-down tomato.  It's not growing too fast.
It definitely prefers Spring/Summer over Fall.

Now the Roma Tomato, on the other hand,
whoa!  It's going crazy and has a ton of
tomatoes on it!

Micro-toms

Here's an update on the micro-toms that are growing in the Aerogarden that Dad gave me.  

I noticed some flower buds on a few of them!

Peppers

Eggplants





 

And a shot of the new fence

Dad's Aerogarden

Here's an update on the Aerogarden that Dad gave me!

micro-tom sprouts

micro-tom sprouts

micro-toms

micro-tom sprouts

micro-tom sprouts

micro-tom sprout

micro-tom sprouts

micro-tom sprouts

micro-tom sprouts

micro-tom plant