February Planting

This month I have planted from seed purple basil, cucumbers, silverbeet, kale, salad leaves, baby spinach, rocket and 7 zucchini plants.

 I am growing round zucchini and yellow zucchini. I have not had much luck with growing zucchini plants on the balcony as they don't seem to like any wind.The wind can be strong as we live 11 floors up. I have sown 7 zucchini plants so that I can experiment with different types of zucchini growing in different parts of the balcony garden.

Bugs

Lately my balcony garden has been attacked by bugs. I have had aphids nearly destroy my capsicum plant. I am annoyed that I let the infestation get this bad before noticing. However I do a lot of the gardening during the evening and it is hard to spot bugs in the poor light.

Aphids on capsicum

There are also mealybugs on my rosemary plant and french tarragon plant.

Mealybugs on french tarragon plant

Mealybugs at base of french tarragon plant

Mealybugs on rosemary plant  

Mealybugs on rosemary plant

They appear as fuzzy, white mess around the stems and leaves of the plant.