Harvesting

These are the after pictures of our beautiful balcony garden. If you want to see the before pictures check out our post in May. I am pretty happy that the end is near. As the plants have grown they have required more and more water. Because I am so lazy this has made the garden less fun to deal with. But I have enjoyed the fruits of our labor. The tomatoes taste really good, they are a little on the small side, but the flavor is great. The flowers are pretty and the herbs have made many tasty creations. Here is me looking super fat picking our first tomatoes.

Look at the size of these plants!

There are lots of tomatoes on the plants.

Here are some yummy small tomatoes.

The herb garden has gone wild, we have cut it down several times, but it always grows back into the forest you see here.

I am amazed at the size of these flowers. There were many times during the year when I thought they were dead, but with a little fertilizer and water they have turned into the bushes you see here.

Do you love Mary Ann's weird little frog? I admit it has grown on me!

Anyway the garden has been fun. I have learned a few things. The topsy turvey tomato planters work very well in a small space if you don't mind small tomatoes. Also herbs are easy to grow, they don't require much care. In the future I think I would put them in separate containers, I think that would make for easy harvest. I guess we will see in the spring if we want to plant things again, for now we will enjoy the plants until it gets too cold.