Balcony Forest Update 3 September 2018

Welcome to my forest, Steemians! I repotted my friend Ellie the Elm Tree (new official name) into a bigger pot today. So now she lives next to my chair on the floor of the balcony. She's as tall as my hips!

The tomatoes are doing well, but it'll be a while before I get fruit, I think:

The other marigold blooms are about done, but it looks like I'll be getting another one soon:

This one surviving apple tree (out of three, originally; the other two fried when I had them in a different location for a week and never recovered) is totally a spider pantry with as many gnats as they caught in their web on it:

Yep, all those dark spots are dead bugs. Speaking of bugs, when I repotted Ellie, a ladybug crawled out from the wood chip mulch looking dazed and confused and I was all, "Oh, sorry, sweetie!" But I think they're okay. They've moved after chilling for a minute to get their bearings.

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I love this time of year when I'm all hiding behind the canopy curtain on the balcony and I feel safe and forest like. Except for the noise, you'd almost forget the Construction Zone down the street. You can see it peeking through the hole:

Sad news, my maple tree friend has taken a turn for the worse after hanging on for so long after The Week In The Courtyard (because of when mgmt sprayed the wasp nest). But I'm not giving up! The apples were smaller and much more toasted. Maple might have some roots and come back in spring, so I'll keep watering. I have had a lot of luck with sickly plant recovery when it comes to houseplants; when I worked at Home Depot, the garden department came to me with their hard luck cases and I took them home and recovered them all, so you never know!

Liiiiiiive!

That's about it from the Balcony Forest in the Sky. Yuan's cat grass did this odd sprout on the edges and just a dud in the middle thing, so the company is sending me a new pack of seeds. I've planted in that container in that area before so they should be fine, and I wrote them like ...please? And a replacement is coming. It never hurts to ask.

Have a great day!