This has been a productive month for my plants! Spring has finally come to Sweden and the biomass seems to be doubling by the week.
I’ve finally gotten around to replanting the tomatoes. It was high time, too. I felt sorry for them in their tiny pots of ground, but just didn’t have the time…
*mumbles at work stealing all my time*
All lined up for replanting:
And repotted into two self-watering pots:
The bell peppers were also replanted. One of them had grown the loveliest white blossoms with a pretty purple border!
The others have normal white blossoms, so I suspect that either they or the purple one is a different breed that I planted by accident. I put some seeds from a supermarket-bought bell pepper in the planting box, but I don’t remember any growing up!
Here the family of peppers is united with their relatives, the chilis, on the westside windowsill.
The bell peppers are also in a self-watering pot now. It’s quite easy and cheap to make them yourself with pvc pipe, leca balls and fibertex if you know how.
I spread some bark on top to keep the dirt from drying out. And because I think it looks spiffy.
The chilis have also been productive:
Here’s another thing that I planted “by accident” out of my fridge. Does anyone want to hazard a guess as to what it is? ;)
Oooh, and when I went to replant the Physalis, I saw it had not only flowered, but started to grow little lanterns!
I’m so thrilled I can’t describe how much. I hope they’ll be ripe before we go on vacation so I can put one in my bento.
Oh, and the zucchini…
…are still monsters.
And growing little zucchini. I am busily dusting them and hoping they’ll take.
They are beautiful, though…
And that’s the gardening diary photodump for this week. Hope you enjoyed them as much as I do!
As a little note of success: Grandma was fascinated that my zucchini were already blooming. She who didn’t think a windowsill garden would work at all when I first told her about it! Woo hoo! :D
OMG – those little bell pepper flowers *are* gorgeous! It will be fascinating to see whether they are indeed a different variety or maybe even a completely different vegetable LOL.
I would guess that your ‘fridgerella’ is a potato plant except that it’s not usual to keep potatoes in the fridge… hm :-\ Is there a prize to be won? Like say… a fridge? :P
BTW, do you know that you can eat zucchini flowers as well? But of course it’s a pity that you can’t have the zucchini then…
It is a potato plant!
The potatoes were in the fridge because they were blue potatoes that I found and wanted to use for a bento. They were already sprouting a little so I thought the fridge might stop the process or at least delay it.
And I want to eat the zucchini… I guess I could eat the male flowers but I haven’t been quick enough so far. :D
LOL and now you probably think I *know* about veggieplants… but I really don’t!
I’ve never had blue potates yet. First time I heard of them was in bento-blogposts ;)