The heat is on...

On the street!

And on my plants, too. Lots of heat. Way too much heat. 100+ degree heat for multiple days in a row. This is causing my peppers to grow more slowly and to do so in a deformed sort of way. Most recent peppers are lucky to make it to baseball size before they start to turn colors. Plus if any side of a pepper faces up to the sky, it gets a nice lesion burned into it.

But I soldier on.

My strawberries are actually taking off, vegetation wise, but not blooming.

Bearing Fruit

Literally. At least the pepper is doing well. After the winds of March broke the main-stem of my tomato plant, I had just the 2 strawberries and the pepper. The strawberries are vegetating ok, but are not doing any fruiting.

The pepper on the other hand is doing nicely. See the pics:

These have grown a bit since the 19th. I'll post more pepper pictures later next week.

Tragedy Redux

This time we had some 35+ MPH winds and my pepper plant took the brunt. And was the worse for wear.

I ended up removing the top lid altogether, inserting a slim stake in the bag, near the center metal pole and then tying off the main stalks to a combination of the stake and the metal pole. So far, it has weathered some subsequent 20-30 MPH winds pretty well.

Pics with some decent sized green bells forthcoming in a subsequent post.