May Brings Many Changes to the West Balcony

May has been a very busy month for Mr. Rooster and me.  Our grand-peep started playing T-Ball with Rooster as the coach.  Yesterday was his last day of kindergarten.  We're so proud of him finishing school two weeks early because he has passed all his test to have early release.

My west balcony has grown so much over the past month.  My Morning Glories are now climbing the fishing line above the balcony rails and each morning I have purple flowers.  I have tomatoes on my patio plants, lots of blooms for future tomatoes. 

My upside down tomato plant is doing great, about 15 blooms so hopeful the warmer weather of June will bring lots of tomatoes.  I soak this basket every other day for about 30 minutes in a large cooler I fill with water.  Because of the Dusty Miller, Petunias and other plants that share this basket I feed it twice a week with bloom and tomato fertilizer.  Soaking wet this basket weights about 50 pounds!!!

 A Sunflower peeks out of the Morning Glories. 

West balcony hanging baskets with Sweet Potato vines, annual flowers that need a little more heat to start flowering. Morning Glories climbing up the fishing line, they give us a living privacy fence.  We've enjoyed waking up each morning to the pretty flowers.                           

This week I hope to see my third Gerber Daisy flower bloom.  The first two blooms have been yellow and pink.  What color will this bloom be??!!

I started this young tomato in January from seed.  My only tomato seedling that made it through the weird spring weather. 

Morning Glories climbing higher, I added the fishing line last week, this week they've grown another foot taller. 

 My daughter gave me a start of what my mom called Hen and Chicken.

 I planted this patio tomato plant in February, I've harvested a few tomatoes each month and now that the weather is warming up it has grown another foot and added lots of cherry tomotoes. 

My largest hanging basket with my upside down tomato plant, Dusty Miller and annual flowers. 



June should bring more flowers and veggies to my west balcony with the warmer weather in Texas.

My Balcony Garden after 90 MPH Winds Storm Last Night

 Sunset this evening off my west balcony.  My east balcony didn't hardly get any rain or damage.  After photo.

 My one red tomato made it through the storm!!!!  My onions are bend and broke but I had blooms on my white Zucchini this afternoon after the storm.  After photo.

At 6:00AM my poor seedlings came out of their holder and fly across the balcony. 

Home Depot had an 18 wheeler flipped over these are the trialers in their parking lot.  Damage everywhere just a few miles from my balcony.  I feel lucky tonight.

 My basket of newly planted Geraniums, Mornings Glories, Tomatilla, Bell Peppers made it with little leave damage.  My Purple Passion did great didn't even lose a leaf.  Right after the storm.

All cleaned up after the storm.  The Sweet Potato vines I planted Saturday did great. 

This building is one mile from my west balcony!!!  Bye-Bye.

This is my local Lowes, the tops of their green house is gone as well as all the tin buildings in their parking lot.  2 miles from my balcony. 

This salad planter did great except the purple onions are sad, the heirloom tomato did great as did the squash plant. 

All cleaned up tonight.  My seedling for the community project are all mixed up but after a little tender loving care under the grow light for the next few day I should be able to tell what is damaged and what I can save. 

Our first Texas spring storm.  More to come I am sure!!!  At least they all got tons of great rain water last night.  I added about 2 inches of potting soil to all my pots to help with stress and the cooler temps tonight from a high yesterday of 90 to 49 tonight. 

Night, night babies!!!