Its finally Spring 2013!

Hi everyone.
Sorry for being away for so long.

This has been a crazy few months. Getting a new job, working a lot more and continuing to grow my photography business.

But, I'm ready to do some gardening for 2013.

Let's go down the list on what I have started this year.

Seeds - Sprouting

Three kinds of leaf lettuce
Garden beans
Cherry tomatoes
Sweet peppers

Growing

Meyer Lemon tree (with one lemon on it!)
Banana plant
Green apple columnar tree
Red apple columnar tree
Aloe vera

I'm hoping to do cayenne peppers and jalapenos as I did last year as they did very well.

Last year I got very carried away, so I'm trying to cut back a little and take better care of some of these plants.

I had a tremendous pepper crop last year and my tomatoes did well as well.  But, my cucumbers didn't do much and my banana plants did ok, but didn't grow as much as I would have liked.

Strawberries - all got white powder mildew
Figs - didn't grow much
Blueberry plant - didn't grow much

I'm going to stay away from berry types this year as there are tons of birds around here.

ALSO, I WILL HAVE A FULL CONTAINER GARDEN THIS YEAR. NO IN GROUND GARDEN. ALL MY CONTAINER PLANTS THRIVED LAST YEAR.

Photo coming up soon!

What's sprouting update!

Hi guys.
I know it's been a while since my last post, but I have been pretty busy with my photography business. It is really taking up most of my time. But, I have not forgotten my plants and have been taking care of them daily. I wanted to show you a few pictures of my plants that have grown flowers or fruits.

Here you go:

Tree Tomato Plant flowering

 I have never seen the Tree Tomato Plant fruiting before. The flower is pretty cool with some nice colors on the inside. As this plant tends to grow very quickly I will have to keep my eye on it. The Tomato looking fruit develops from the flower.

Tree Tomato Plant flowering

Temple Orange plant trying to fruit

Now, I am not positive, but I think those are temple oranges getting ready to grow. I can see that on all the other flowers the stem had fallen off. On these two images they have a flat end to them. So I'm hoping these will grow into big fruit. I'll have to see what happens.

Temple Orange plant trying to fruit