weekly garden report

[cellio]

Each pepper plant has three peppers (even though one plant is much larger than the other). The peppers are still green and have grown quite a bit since last week. (The peppers are in the white pot and in the blue pot that is not on a step. I've been moving things around a bit to try to optimize everything's sunlight.)

All of the cherry tomatoes are still green and there are more small ones. I cannot tell if I have aphids.

I tried using some fresh basil on pizza the other day. How should I have done that differently?

Comments

[cellio]

Oh, the residual heat wilts them! That's the clue I was missing. I've eaten pizza with nice, green basil leaves that were warm and soft, so I assumed they'd been cooked all along; I didn't consider post-production. (And yes, that's the mistake I made and the effect I got.) Thank you. (An answer there says to apply it at the end but doesn't talk about the wilting, so that didn't seem like it would produce the desired effect. Now I get it.)

[minoanmiss]

You're totally welcome. I thought it was important to add the information on what the results would be and how we end up there. :)