Seasonal changes.

I'd like to welcome autumn to da house!!  The skies are blue, the sun is shining, and the wind is blowing!  With this change my bedroom gardening season is rearing to end for my summer plants.

- I still have some tomatoes that are staying strong with fruits ripening up.  Some of the tomato plants would look really really naked if it wasn't for a couple of wilting leaves and a few ripening tomatoes.  But that is all part of its course, plants grow, ripen and die to make space for next season's plants.  Here are some tomatoes I harvested a couple of days ago.  Kumato (top left), cherry (top and bottom right) and tiger stripe (bottom left).

- There are a couple of plants that are not rearing to an end.  Those are my serrano chili plants.  One is even starting to flower and everyone knows what that means!!!  Potential chili peppers!!!!

- Even my kohlrabi's are still holding on!  They didn't end up growing into actual kohlrabi's.  I think it's because I haven't put them in a pot big enough.  They are in a hanging basket and the stems are a beautiful foggy purple colour, and that's why I won't get rid of them...because they are pretty!

- Here is a distant view of my garden window.  You can see I have significantly less plants.  One of the reasons gardening is so wonderful is that you really can see and feel the seasons changing with your fingers if you don't otherwise. 

- For a finishing touch, here's a picture of me in my favourite place.  Of course you know it...Tempelhof!  A couple of weeks ago there were hay bails all over the field.  They had stacked some of them into pyramids, which we used as jumping platforms!!!  It was so much fun at the time...until I got home and my whole body was an itchy mess!!

Anyways, thanks for reading...and I wish you all the very best of the start of autumn.

Autumnal ..love..

Here's to a new gardening season!

Welcome to my new blog.  Dedicated to all things green and growing.  I had a successful bedroom gardening season last year (2013) and decided that this year (2014) I would document my growth.  I'd like to throw in that I am really really lucky to live in a 4th floor apartment with south facing bedroom windows which is a definite plus on any gardening venture.

My 2013 Berlin bedroom garden looked like this:

lots of tomatoes, cucumbers, red peppers, and scotch bonnet peppers

Hopefully 2014 will similarly bring magical bedroom edibles.  This year I will try growing vegetables that I have never grown before such as beans, peas, lemons, and papayas.  Tomatoes are on the list again.  Cherry, Yellow Pear, Kumato, etc.  I am going to try to keep my tomatoes in check this time round, growing short and bushy instead of having to try and find space and direction for my loooooong tomato stems.  Cucumbers, basil, coriander, and chives are on the list.  Maybe I will have a go at carrots, kohl rabi, and kale for the winter.

I have also got a new found love for succulents, so we'll see what happens there.

Anyway, I cannot promise that all of my conquests will be successful this year, but here goes to trying!  We'll see what happens!

 ..love..