3 new volunteer tomatoes.
Didn't plant these, they just grew from seeds of fallen cherry tomatoes.
Don't know what to do with them. Running low on space.
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have lots of flowers but very few strawberries
They are extremely sweet. But tiny.
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I always wanted to have bamboo on. My balcony. When they were renovating a house in Juan Les Pins I cut a few branches from the ones they were throwing out.
Put them in a 10L soil bag and w year later they're my height and starting to stick out of the bag.
I don't mind that, but I fully understand why people hate them. They are really invasive.
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Today June 10th harvest from the balcony.
I lost about 7-8 of them falling off the balcony, I think my first floor neighbor will have a lot of surprised cherry tomato plants later this year or next year.
I have now over 10 tomato plants to give away. Plus the 6 that are new and starting to bloom and produce, these #tomatoes are from plants I started in 2022.
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Don't know what happened, but my #strawberries (the few I get every day) are suddenly very very sweet.
I am joyfully surprised.
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Getting more and more tomatoes from my little garden.
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My 2 fully grown garlic I got fromy last year planting
I bought one purple garlic from the farmers market last year and planted all 12 clove of it in soil and hydroponic. Most of those in hydroponics gave me a lot of chives I used on the past few months but most of them didn't produce any garlic.
Yesterday, I was cleaning up the planters outside and found these 2. One is almost a fully grown garlic, perfect to be used as seeds for the next season.
I still have 4 more in soil and w in hydroponics to provide me with fresh chives.
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Surprise cucumber is already blooming
Wasn't planning to grow cucumbers this summer, but I guess I did it anyway.
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Replanted one of my tomatoes in a 10L soil bag from last year with added compost from the ones I started in December last year.
Looking forward to see how many tomatoes I get from it.
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Hydroponic tomatoes from the indoor IKEA Växer unit by the balcony door
I'm having problem with bugs need to move out this to wash it off completely to save it.
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now I have slugs problem.
It's not starting very good for me this season.
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Today's harvest from the balcony!
They starting to bloom so I picked them up and will cut them to freeze.
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I planted this cherry #tomato from seeds when I returned to South of France 2 years ago. It has been producing tomatoes since then and now it has massive bunches of flowers growing on it.
Have never seen anything like this before. It's like 15-20 flowers and tomatoes on one single branch and have about 10 of them on each plant (3 total). these are the ones I planted directly in the 50L soil bags I bought from the store.
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Planting an overgrown onion in a pot outside gave me 3 harvest of onion leaves and now it's blooming and I will have lots of onion seeds.
It's amazing how much one single #onion produced. Used the leaves in 2 soups and one stew and have 5 or 6 more thick leaves to harvest too. The ROI was lmore than 10x the amount I spent on one onion.
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I'm officially declaring the experiment of regrowing store bought celery a success.
I put the plant with a few healthy roots into one of the holes of the Hydroponic Dutch bucket and it seems to be growing even faster and hopefully in a month, when I'm planning to make Celery stew, it will be large enough to harvest.
Made a short TikTok video about my little project:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGexWJELN/
(It's my gardening TikTok account to prevent falling into the shaddowban of my other accounts).
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Trying to propagate my jalapeno pepper on the inside hydroponic to have plants to give away.
Not sure if it works. But giving it a try. Will check it out at the end of the month before Mellie comes home.
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The little set-up of IKEA Växer Hydroponic by the balcony door is giving me new produce almost daily.
Have cut back about half of the plants due to aphids attack and soil gnats like bugs growing in the substrate of the mesh cups.
But the 2 tomato plants on the top unit are not only keep growing, but they are giving me tiny juicy cherry tomatoes all the time.
Decided to add some threads to help them stand up so they get more lights and make it more visible.
Already moved one out to a 20L #Kratky on the balcony, I may move one of these out as they are getting too big for indoor.
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My first Hydroponic weed.
I planted some beef steaks tomatoes in Kratky earlier this year but the plant didn't grow well and died after giving me just 2 tomatoes.
I left the unit out and saw some weed growing on it and didn't mind having some greens on the balcony rather than bare concrete walls.
Today i saw that the water has all but gone and lifted up the plants. It has some pretty impressive roots developed and I might keep it on the side just for fun. It doesn't hurt to have it and it's going to help cool down the balcony when the summer comes.
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Aphids, Aphids and more Aphids.
Fighting almost daily with big infestation of Aphids on my indoor hydroponic peppers and herbs.
Almost running out of neem oil and need to find a source to buy at reasonable price.
#Aphids
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Biggest bunch of #parsley I have picked from IKEA Växer Hydroponic unit by the balcony door.
I only picked about half of the plants and now the whole apartment smells like fresh parsley.
Going to freeze them for cooking later. Or I see if I can finish the Solar dryer this weekend and give it a try.
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