Garden Update

My balcony garden successes this summer weren't as great as I'd hoped.  Our beautifully hot and dry summer, while maybe undermining some of my plant-growing efforts, did contribute to great yields in the herbs and hot pepper departments.  Soon, it will be time to try bringing some of them indoors for the winter, but for now, I just wanted to share a few months worth of botanically-related highlights...

 ( it's a jungle out there... )

( exactly half of this year's strawberry supply... )

(... or was, until last week, when the ever-bearing plant leapt back into action ) 


( unwelcome and surprisingly frequent visitors )

( this year's cayenne pepper harvest.  hot stuff! )

 ( apples on my family's city apple trees... planted post-Hurricane Juan )