Spider mites again :(

Spider mites have again proved the downfall of a promising AeroGarden. This time it was my cherry tomatoes. I did not get a single fruit off of them. They look like crap so I'm chucking em in the compost pile. I was unable to grow a single tomato this year by any method.

I suspect it's still getting too hot in my little side room, although I tried to keep the ceiling fan running. Maybe my squalid apartment is just infested, which wouldn't surprize me, as it's home to almost every other kind of bug.

I do have a few healthy plants like the pobablano and the squash... just not a lot of fruit action. One of my lemons is turning ripe though, after several months. I should get a half dozen in all.

It's a cruel, cruel summer

That little praying mantis drowned in a glass I left on the patio overnight :(

It's been a cruel, cruel summer as far as the plants go. I have seen temperatures on my patio as high as 113'F. I can't imagine transplanting anything from the hydro outside into that.

I think I need larger containers, in general. My poblano peppers aren't really doing anything.

My AeroGardens are growing various seedlings, and I have had an awful lot of duds among the seed pods. One of my AGs has just two plants, as they are both statuesque, budding beauties: a cherry tomato and a monstrously huge zucchini with leaves the size of small pancakes. Zucchini seems to be well suited to hydroponics. I wonder if my AG Classic will be large enough to house the full plant.

Back at the AG

Back at the orig AG, the tomato seedlings are leaps and bounds over their soil-bound brethren.

Off-label tomatoes sprouting

My "off-label" tomatoes began to sprout today, a couple of days after their in-Aerogarden counterparts (actually those are not company pods either). I am referring to the seeds I put in little peat pots clustered together next to the AG3. I call them off-label because they are an extracirricular addition to the approved Aerogarden application. Tomatoes seem to be the easiest plant to grow, ever. At this rate I should have plenty of seedlings to nuture or find new homes.

Tomatoes gone wild

After four days, the tomato seedlings are already at the top of the little cover.

Aerogarden sprouts!

I finally got something extracirricular to sprout in my Aerogarden! The Burpee's Better Boy hybrid tomato seeds. It just took a couple of days.

Green impulse

I went for a walk by the river. I ended up halfway to the grocery store so I kept on walking. An impulse buy was some tomato seeds. They are in ten little cups, nine of them made of peat, soaking up the light of the nearest growing appliance. Each got about five seeds. One of the little cups is actually an Aerogarden pod; I put them right on top of the stupid hops seeds that haven't done anything in a whole month. Hopefully the tomatoes (Burpee Better Boy Hybrid) will do something unlike all the other seeds I have fruitlessly tried to start this year.