First harvest and more!

Last week we had our first harvest and enjoyed a simple salad of lettuce, feta cheese marinated in olive oil and said olive oil.

Home-grown lettuce, feta cheese marinated in olive oil

That was last week. And as is obvious, our lettuces are doing quite well:

Lettuce

and more letuce

As usual, the mint, parsley, etc. aren’t doing so hot. I’m seriously ready to give-up on them (if I haven’t already):

Not so good looking plants

The tomatoes and basil plants in the fourth pot, however, are doing quite decently. The tomato plant leaves aren’t looking so hot but we do have tomatoes growing! The basil, on the other hand, is flowering, which meant we started nipping them so as to keep it growing longer. (Yes, I screwed-up the depth of field in some of the shots. Oh well.)

Tomatoes, basil, oh my!

Growing tomatoes

Big boy

Teeny tiny tomatoes

Basil flowers

So far, not sure quite what to make of all of this. We definitely still have a bug problem but the plants seem to be stronger and more resistant to them. Maybe the sprinkling of pepper and the chili spray worked? Maybe it’s just the liquid fertilizer in the water every week or two? Or maybe it’s the cute lady bug that I saw for the first time on one of our lettuce plants tonight? (I read that lady bugs are good against these infestations.)

Either way, it’s a good learning experience for both of us and when things go well, a pretty tasty experience as well!