The Food is Coming...
Imagine my surpise this morning when I went out to check the plants and discovered a teeny, tiny jalapeno developing! I did a quick read of the peppers section of Joy of Gardening and discovered an interesting tip. When your peppers are just beginning to set out blossoms, spray them with epsom salts diluted in water. Apparantly pepper plants (as well as tomatoes which I already knew) need the magnesium in epsom salts. In peppers it aids in setting fruit. You're supposed to spray again in another 10 days and the leaves should turn green and the flowers should produce fruit. Mind you I already have one tiny fruit but it can't hurt to spray the other flowers.
In other exciting news I now have several small tomatoes on the 'Purple Prince' and 'Lemon Boy' plants. So cute. There is even a microscopic tomatillo developing.
The lemon verbena has been producing flowers and so has the apple mint. The apple mint flowers smell like bubble gum!
Even though the garbage strike is over I'm noticing an awful lot of flies are hanging around the deck. We didn't have any garbage out there but garbage was stored in places around the building and I'm sure it was only a matter of time before the maggots turned into adult flies. I'm hoping they go away soon because I want to eat out there more often and that's kind of hard to do when flies are constantly plotting to land on my food.
posted at 03:51 PM
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