Taking the Good with the Bad

I'll start by talking about the good, my Bush Early Girl tomato plant.  Isn't she beautiful?  Unfortunately, I have been extremely busy lately and forgot to water her for 2 days and I came home yesterday to her wilting.  BUT today she is looking a lot better and I noticed something amazing..

 

The first little tiniest hint of a tomato!  I'm not sure if you can see it from the pictures because I just use my blackberry for the pictures on this blog, but it's there!  There are two actually, both on the same branch.

So I'm pretty excited about that.  I really have to remember to come out everyday to check if it needs water.  It even poured out yesterday, but I guess it still didn't get enough rain.

Now we'll start with the bad.  I've been noticing on my pallet garden that the Purple Crystal Alyssum, have been losing the flowers.  This I am finding this odd because the Snow Crystal Alyssums are doing fine, and so is the Gypsy Deep Rose Gypsophilia.  It isn't just becaue one side is getting more sun than the other side, it is happening throughout the pallet.  Take a look:

I'm not sure if you can see it from this picture, but I get more sun on the left side.  The top makes sense to me because the white flowers are doing great getting more sun than the purple.  But if you look below the Gypsophilia, you can't even see the purple flowers, just the white ones.  Good to know for next season I suppose.  Also the Wave Petunias are looking a little ratty.  We do get a lot of wind up here so it is probably a combination of that and less than desirable sun.

The Strawberry plants weren't looking so well last week, but they are looking healthier this week.  Less leaves seem to be getting burnt from the heat up here.  The Panzies are trying to make a comeback.  They were wilting pretty bad yesterday.  I gave them a big drink and some seem to be starting to stand again, but I also have another problem.  There is sticky stuff on them.  This substance is also on my owl..  Then I found this:

..a cigerette butt, gross!  I'm guessing we have some partiers above us.  Which is fine as long as they don't pour their drinks and throw their butts off of the balcony.  I called the landlord to make sure they get a friendly reminder.  Last year we had a problem above us and ended up finding butts, a pizza box, and raw hamburger on our balcony one time.  Needless to say I wasn't impressed.