Balcony garden: late September 2009

Here is what happens when you fly around to five states, through seven airports, in two weeks. Your plants miss you:


This is an overall of the plants. I could probably blame some of their sad appearance on the intense thunderstorms they've had to endurse in the last two weeks, which some are saying resulted in epic, 500-year flooding, but that's probably a cop-out. Really, I've just been a bad plant parent.


Here's a closeup of the Bonnie tomatoes, which are still producing. I ate one just before leaving for Pittsburgh, and it was pretty darn tasty. The leaves look like shit, but the tomatoes themselves look pretty decent.


Here's the Bush Goliath, looking much the same: the tomatoes are looking pretty decent, while the leaves and plant is looking pretty dire.


The herg garden is looking so-so; I'll probably start to harvest quite a bit of it soon.


Here's a closeup of the sage in the herb garden, which is a pretty mixed bag: some of it is clearly curling and dying off, while other parts are doing fine.


And the stand-alone basil planting, which is struggling, but putting up a game fight.