In my Garden.

It's a rainy day but nice and cool so I'm enjoying the weather and doing what I can on my balcony. This weekend will be really hot and humid so I will be staying inside because I can't function on days like that. I have some budgeting to do and also need to sort my daughters school work so I can sit outside and enjoy the cool breeze.

Garden is growing taller everyday, my marigolds are so tall that I can't see my carrots any more, the potatoes have some bugs on the leaves so I spray them with vinegar and water and I put in more marigold seeds in so maybe the smell will keep the bugs away. Here is our trouble maker:

I had a big jar that I got on a garage sale and on the way home I broke the lid so I put some dirt in it and planted oregano:

I had to put string for the sweet potatoes, now this corner is getting really hard to water because of all the sticks and now the strings:

The 3 small pots had a spider plants in them but they grew so much that the roots were coming out so I put them in a bigger pots and took them inside and here I planted more oregano:

New onions:

Potato: 

Marigolds: 

Cucumbers:

I also have small mint:

Window boxes:

My balcony from one end:

And the other end, the bucket is under the AC, I collect the water from it and use it water my plants:

And here are my indoor plants on the living room windows, this is my lemon that I planted from a seed:

This is pineapple: 

My kids room:

And my bedroom:

Dinner.

Yesterdays dinner was roasted chicken with veggies. I made this chicken couple times and I always followed the recipe but this time I changed the seasoning. I rubbed the chicken with thyme and then spread butter all over it and it came out golden and so juicy. I fried some red potatoes, turnips, carrots and frozen asparagus from last year. it was delicious. And for dessert I made plum cake ( I will post the recipe next week).

Trip to grocery store.

I was so happy after my last trip to the grocery store. I came back home with everything I needed and no plastic or any packaging. all my veggie and fruits came in my own reusable bags. Normally I would have bags of pasta, jars of sauce, lemons and avocado in net plastic bags but this time nothing like that came with me. Next week I'm planing a trip to the bulk store to get pasta and beans and rice, all in jars or bags.

In my garden - update.

So my computer is not working and I’m trying to do the post on my phone, I don’t know how this will work but until the computer is fixed this has to do. I can’t include any pictures, I don’t know why but I will work on it. I am hopeful that by the end of the week the computer will be working.


For this moment the computer is working so I'm doing a quick post from my balcony, I really hope that it will be OK from now on. 

I have bin so busy that I didn't dry the parsley yet, its getting really big.

Sweet potato.

Spinach.

Potato

This is what gardening looks like when you have cats at home, lots of fence.

New additions to my balcony, 3 hanging plants, I made the baskets from a string.