Practicing Patience

I was starting to get worried- sugar snap peas are a cool weather crop, and mine have been growing for quite sometime. I kept hearing about how easy they are to grow, how profuse the crop is, etc. But not even a single bloom! But I read a similar problem, and read that the person would soon have more than enough- just to practice patience. Sure enough, within that week, the person had a ton of blooms.

So hopefully it goes with me. I just saw the first bloom today, so I'm hopeful that a ton more are on the way. As soon as they start blooming you have to be on your toes for the peas; supposedly you can hardly keep up with them.

Here's the first bloom.




Cute, aren't they?

Oh, and the raspberries just bloomed for the first time this week as well. Their flowers look a bit like spaced-out daisies. =)

Tomato Spots

Not sure what this is, but it's showing up mostly on my Yellow Pear tomato, although I believe it is also on my Burbank Slicing and Black Plum.

First Salad

I wanted to announce the first bowl of lettuce. I can't call it salad as we've eaten all the tomatoes for the time being off the little tomato plants and I didn't want to add anything I hadn't grown myself. So here it is, looking fine, if I do say so myself:



Notice the beautiful mixed greens. Yup, nutrition, growing right on my front balcony.

Ok, first bite, yall get to experience it with me:



UGH!HH! CATERPILLAR!!



Ha ha, just joking. Although I didn't have to, I did wash each leaf. I haven't used any pesticides, and I'm planning on using natural pest control when it comes time (I'm sure it will).

Ok, here goes, for real.

Mmm, whoa! Crunchy, light, and a strong pepper/spicy taste. Cool! It doesn't even need anything else with it, but tomatoes would be good (they're good with everything, Doug says).

Ok, I'm gonna enjoy this salad.