My first beefsteak tomatoes ever.

Ask my daughter to pick it and she cut both fruits.

I will keep the other one in a paper bag until it's ready.

Going to have cheese and crackers to snack later today
Perfect for a hot day like this.

Still can't believe I managed to grow this in a balcony planter.

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The park next door installed a neighborhood compost system handled by the city.

People use it a lot and every now and then we get the compst from them.

I signed up with their mailing list to get a message when it's available, because last time I almost missed it.

Went for a walk with Mellie and brought a 20L bag with me. Filled it up and brought it home.

Mixed half of it with 10L of coco peat and used the most of the other half on my tomato pots.

Still have some left.

I really like #compost. It smells so good and gives a boost to plants almost immediately.

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I'm so anxious to see how these black tomatoes turn out.

I've been waiting patiently for them to be ready and TBH have no idea how to see it, I just touch them to see if they are soft, but they are all solid Iike a rock.

I've about 30-40 of them , from walnut to green bean size and they seem to stay at walnut size and don't grow any bigger.

Watering it with a 1L milk bottle (have a small hole in it), twice a day and it seems to be healthy and growing taller and have new flowers.

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Today's harvest from the balcony.

Accidentally broke a branch of the cherry tomato and have a bunch of green ones on my hand..

Still can't harvest the black tomatoes. They are not ready.

This is the second batch of jalapenos, these are from the hydroponic unit.

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Many years ago, when I was on Facebook, I asked people about tips to limit the damages caused by bugs when growing strawberries.

One of the best tips was too plant leak and garlic in between the strawberry plants.

I have been doing it for years now and I've not bought any garlic for over 3 years now (I don't use it much anyway).

Today, I picked up another fully grown garlic from the balcony planter.

#Garlic
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