Balconytomato™ flower

Start the red yummy tomatoes flowing we have a flower!

Michaelsan Bonsai June update

The bonsai has been filling in quite a bit so I decided to take a new picture, the shape is no better but it does look fairly healthy, there is some tiny, very hard to see moss growing on soil, I have been misting it every day.


Here's the May picture for reference

Balconytomato™ Blowing the budget

So I blew the budget a bit and replanted 2 of the tomatoes in new pots

2 New pots $2(£1)
1 20 liter Bag of "organic" soil $0.99(50p)
2 Foam plates $0.20(10p)

This crappy picture is of three of the tomatoes now lined up on the back balcony where there is a lot more hours of light a day, 2 were replanted yesterday, you can see by comparing the size of the last pictures they are growing already woohoo.


In this picture the front tomato is at the top amongst all the flower pots I planted yesterday, the giant geranium is in the foreground, yes the deck is dirty and has to be swept when the rain is over.

Amazing Balconytomato™

Ok clearly bonsai is going to take years and probably end in heartbreak so I started another project that might bring some quicker satisfaction(or disappointment) to me and the blog, hope Petersan doesn't mind. I am keeping the spirit of the bonsai and making it cheap and experimental.

Goal: grow a sweet sweet tomato, the fruit of love, a divine tomato buddha himself would enjoy snacking on. This is the stuff dreams are made of.
Time: 7:30am Thursday May 22nd, partly cloudy, 15c
Location: My balcony
Cost: $2.10

Materials
1 flat of 9 'Pink Girl' tomato plants $2(£1)
2 plastic bags(previously enjoyed, one owner)
1 flower pot left over from last year
1 pot my bonsai came in
1 bunch of soil, some left over, some from a bag i was given
1 foam plate $0.10(5p)

Here is the flat of Pink Girl tomatoes from Reno Depot


Here is 3 potted on the front balcony, 1 will be moved to the back if the other back one survives


Here is one potted on the back balcony, it gets very hot on the back so there is a foam plate under the pot. A male blackbird who was guarding a nest across the yard protested loudly to me about putting the pot there, I was not deterred.

Wiring

Ok here's a rather poor photo of my attempt at wiring

Picture Update.

How my bonsai currently looks:-

It's Aliiiiiiiive!!!

Normally I wouldn't bother posting these images, but as they show a growth spurt here they are!