I love my husband. One of the many reasons why is that he finds ways to work around the limitations of condo living to create for me things that I never thought we would be able to have. Spread out in the parallel parking space in front of our building, he was able to build a glorious planter box that I thought could only come from a fully stocked garage.
It was my goal and desire to once again plant a few vegetables on our back porch, where there is great morning sun. We purchased three husky red tomato plants and three red bell pepper plants. I planted them in the box, watered them well, and hoped for the best.
Here is a picture of the day I planted them:
May 3, 2009
And from such a humble beginning they began to grow...
This picture was taken one month later on June 2, 2009.
On that day there were signs of the bounty I hoped to have later.
Then Adam and I went away for two weeks to see my parents and my across-the-hall-gal-pal, Jamie, was gracious enough to water my precious plants. She had quite the touch! They thrived!
We arrived home to quite an impressive amount of growth!
I was even able to harvest three tomatoes and there is one pepper very large! The variety of pepper that I chose will ripen all the way to red. I think we will try to hold off on picking it until then!
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