Gardening Update from our balcony paradise- salad harvest

It has been exactly 10 days since I last posted about our tiny little balcony paradise.
A lot of growth has been going on since then and there where also 3 harvests of salad leafs. #
The tomatoes has two flowers already with many more to come. Unfortunately, our wildflower bed is not blooming yet, so no smell and color attract the bees. I might end up manually pollinating the pepper and tomato flowers with the help of a paintbrush.

I planted the tomatoes in two medium pots below the salad bed as they tend to like it a bit more protected. I gave them a little thing to climb on as well and I hope that by the end of the summer, it will have grown on the balcony handrail and spread all over the place.
There is a possibility that I will have to repot them in larger pots though. In fact I might do that before the plant gets too big.

A full colander of freshly picked salad leafs. Actually 3 types of salad leafs but I again forgot their names. One is lambs lettuce and the other two are both just called "Pflücksalat" for which I found curled lettuce and lettuce or leaf lettuce. One harvest is always a salad for two or I guess even 4 people. We just like our salads so much that we end up eating way more than we should.

The lemon thyme and the rosemary are thriving and the rosemary will need a fresh pot at some point.
I know the one at my parents place grew into a huge bush over the years and I hope I can make that happen in a bit more condensed form on our balcony.

Here we have a closer look at the tomato plants both are already opening their flowers so I can not wait to share the first little green tomatoes on these babies.

The pepper plant or paprika will does have a lot of buds that are also starting to open up. Let's hope that are wild flower bed will be up and running by next week.

A little cleanup needs to be done in this bed where I discovered parasites on the salad. Or better in the salad leafs. It was contained pretty quick but it does not look its best right now. On the left side the carrots are doing well but we need a lot of patience for those to grow.

The potato plants are all thriving except for the one on the right. It is because this pot has no saucer and is losing water quicker than the other three. I will correct that mistake and we will see if it helps the little potato plant to catch up with its buddies.

I can't wait for the first salad where everything comes from our balcony garden. The pepper and the tomatoes in this salad are still from the shop downstairs.

That was it for my gardening ventures for this week.

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