What's growing on, Beehaw?

We're under a severe heat advisory this week and it's a delicate balance keeping our plants and myself from wilting, but some of our Musk Mallow (Malva alcea unless I'm mistaken) is blooming and they're lovely
https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/8f807907-cfe7-45fd-9bcd-8c264680aa18.webp

What's growing on with you all?

godzilla_lives ,
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Southern balcony gardener reporting in with mostly-positive results! Some of the plants I grew from seed are doing well, including my kale, micogreens, sunflowers, catnip, and even a few pumpkins! The kale and microgreens are looking great, though I need to harvest more to prevent crowding (right?), so I've actually started to add the microgreens into my lunches! I think I'll make a baby kale salad today as well.

Unfortunately, I've lost most of the pumpkin sprouts due to this heat and my own inexperience, but(!) I never had high hopes for container pumpkins on a balcony in the South. It's just a fun thing to try, and maybe the few I have will flower again and let me help pollinate.

That brings me to my real passion, peppers! My cayennes have been doing swimmingly, and I've been able to harvest enough for wife to make our own brand of hot sauce. It's pretty cool seeing a finished product this early in the summer! I'm excited for more to come in, especially my jalapenos and ghost peppers so we can make it kick a little harder. I actually found a hot dragon roll pepper that had ripened way sooner than expected, and Bees, I am happy to report that a glass of milk was almost necessary to help with the heat!

That's it for now :) here's a picture of a sunflower that I grew.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/0fb2ba3e-af70-4d3f-8435-c98eb37c2e6d.webp

Much love to y'all <3

LallyLuckFarm OP Mod ,
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We lost a few winter squash in this recent heat wave in the northeast, I sympathize and echo your hope for some fresh growth!

And as someone with a rocky history of growing peppers and who has a spouse that can't handle spice much at all, I'm super glad you're having a great time of it and will be enjoying peppers vicariously through you <3

stiephelando ,

We are going to move from our apartment to a lovely house in August. I'm looking forward to the new place. it's gonna be awesome for the family and me, but it means giving up my backyard garden in the middle of the season.

I have many plants in containers so it's not like I'll lose everything, but the move has a bittersweet note.

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