sooner than expected

[cellio]

I was not expecting this quite yet:

Or this:

I wonder how long it will take to get from that to ripe cherry tomatoes and miniature peppers. We'll see!

(Yes that is a crossbow bolt (and yes I used long bolts when I shot). My first try at tomato stakes got me something that's way too big. I'm waiting for try #2 to arrive.)

Here are the others, as a comparison to last week.

I moved the smaller pepper into a larger pot since it wasn't doing as well as its sibling, and I then moved one of the two basil plants sharing a pot into the vacated pot. I'm done moving things; whatever happens happens.

That rosemary in the red pot on the top step does not seem to be thriving. It's not failing; it's just not growing, near as I can tell. It's not as good a pot as the others. The pot and the plant both came from Home Depot. If it doesn't grow, oh well -- the rosemary it already has would cost more as produce in the store than the plant, pot, and soil did. The smaller rosemary (in the plum-colored pot) seems to be doing better.

Comments

[hudebnik]

It looks from the photo as though the red rosemary pot has little or no drainage, and isn't made of terra cotta so it doesn't lose moisture through evaporation either. Try watering that pot less than the others? Rosemary is pretty hardy against drying out. Or maybe you've already reached that conclusion: there's no water on the steps around the red pot in the photo.

On a different subject, are those aphids or something all over the tomato plant?

[cellio]

Thanks. Yeah, the drainage there is poor, and I've been watering it less.

On a different subject, are those aphids or something all over the tomato plant?

Hmm, good question. I asked Google to tell me about (and show me pictures of) aphids, and then I looked with a magnifying glass, and I still can't tell -- just don't see well enough for something as tiny as the Internet says they are, I guess. I did see what looked like fuzz appear around the same time the flower buds started; at the time I just assumed it was part of normal development, like maybe that fuzz would become more flowers or something. (I've never grown tomatoes before, or much of anything else.)

I hosed the plants down, which an article says is a remedy, but that didn't knock much off. The same article also suggested flour and diluted dish soap with cayenne (two separate things, not together), which I guess I'll try next, probably in that order.

[hudebnik]

I've always thought of aphids as green, and the things in the photo are brown. But they're roughly the SIZE of aphids, and they're clustered like aphids, so if they're not aphids, I'd guess they're some other kind of sap-sucking insect that you probably don't want on your tomato plants.

The fuzz could be a normal part of the plant -- I haven't grown tomatoes in at least forty years, if ever, so I'm not sure -- or it could indicate an insect or arachnid infestation, or a fungal infection. The Interwebz will know better than I.

Wouldn't want you to lack for things to worry about. You're welcome :-)