With exceptionally warm October the plants on my balcony continue to thrive. Temperatures around 25°C are just perfect and my biggest pride, the strawberries keep on giving fruit. I would never thought that I will pick fresh strawberries in October from the balcony.
The whole month was dry except for once when it rained and washed the dust away. Here is the lemon tree covered rain drops.
And dipladenia flower too.
Now, let me show you how the other plants are doing.
Last month the amaranth started growing again, but there was one weak root with leaves eaten by some bug and I did not give much chance. But the plant got another idea and come back to life. Look how tall it became.
Verbena surprised me with white flowers along with its original violet ones.
But predominantly the flowers continue to be violet with white stripes, although on the next photo it is more pinkish because of the light.
Dahlia, oh this flower is delightful and blooming and blooming.
I was so glad to see the bee on the dahlia flower.
The other surprise this month was the tomato that started growing again. After we removed the plant some seeds have found their new places in two different pots. Here is the one.
And the other.
I can't save them as I have no green house and soon the weather will turn nasty.
Nasturtium. Now it is becoming even bigger.
The second plant was kept on shady place almost all the time and now for a month being more on the sunny spot it shows the lovely flowers.
It comes in two colours - red and yellow with red veins.
Would you dare to try these chilly peppers 🌶🌶🌶?
Lastly something that I started from seeds and forgot what it was.
Soon the plants will be indoors when it will turn cold. I hope that my helper in the garden, the cat will not be tempted to dig and destroy them.
This year the little garden was doing very well, but there were failures too. The rose, the sunflower, the rosemary did not survive. Some plants I tried from seeds never grew. Alas, not everything flourished and some died in early stage. But hey, there is so much more that made the balcony look nicer. And again I am most thankful to my hubby who constantly takes care of the plants and moved them around to protect them either from the heat or from the rain and now prepared the room for putting them indoors for the winter.
If you reached by far, this is the end of my October Garden Journal for SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge - October, hosted by @simplymike. If you have a garden or just look after plants in your home, or you have farm and have not joined yet, check this post.
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Wow! You're little balcony garden is exceptionally beautiful 😘😍😻😻😻 I'm just amazed! Yes that warm October was great! We had the same temperatures here as well. It's so sad that the cold will change all that soon.
The weather has just turned here on Monday and it's getting more cold every day. Now the snow isn't far off, it's already come down onto the smaller mountains. Only about 350 to 400m higher it's snowing.
Enjoy your lovely garden as long as you can! You could try to cover the plants to keep them a bit warmer. They've got the right things for plants to get them over the winter. Lots of info about it online too. It worked with my plants years ago.
Big hugs! And purrs from the kitties 😽 😽 😽 💕
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Awww, thank you very much for your nice comment ❤
It was successful summer for most of the plants and we always try to experiment. Once we had potatoes on the balcony. In one big, deep pot we have grown some and then we have about dozen. They were the most delicious potatoes garnished with homegrown parsley.
Now the weather changed and it is wet and cold. I can put up with the rain, but not with the wind.
Most of the plants are indoors for the cat's delight. 😀 Her grass too. So, she can play in her own pot with grass and hopefully she will leave the other plants alone.
Wish you lovely day. ❤
Thanks for joining again, @nelinoeva.
Those plants surely look great. Still lots of colors. :0)
Thank you! 😀 I am glad to join the challenge.
All is so perfect I love the strawberry
Thank you ❤
Strawberries are my favourite.
That balcony garden is just in the prefect spot i reckon everything seems to do well 👍
It is good to have greens around. The weather was very favourable too.
Nothing better then picking your own fresh strawberries 😺
Absolutely beautiful !! .. your garden journal is one of my favorite places here on steem ^^
Awww, this is such a compliment. Thank you very, very much. 😀
So much beauty!💕
You have a truly remarkable indoor garden with so many colorful varieties of flowers and even strawberries! @nelinoeva
We should find you some butterflies and bees to keep during the cold seasons-- they would thrive in your loving care! 🦋🌿👩🌾
Awww, thank you Nina 😀
By the way we had once such an idea to turn one of the rooms into sort of greenhouse and to breed butterflies. But it did not work out.
Hopefully you revisit the idea in the future and have successfulness! 🦋🌿🔆
What a pretty post and pretty garden! Lovely to see all those flowers... great job. Where do you live? Is this an apartment balcony?
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Thank you for stopping by.
Yes, I live in a apartment and the balcony is my garden. I am lucky to be on the top floor and the balcony is south facing. If I have a house it will be definitely with greenhouse.