Flower power

Here's a confession. I'm lazy. Sometimes without reason, I procrastinate. That I've got a miserable throat, an irritatingly runny nose and a near-constant low grade fever, isn't helping much. What I need now is either inspiration or a kick. So here I am almost 45 days into my green adventure...constantly putting off the buying of organic pesticide/ gathering information on what if, the plants attract bugs. And they have. Surprisingly inside the green house. It's a mini invasion of mini mites, whose might  by no means seems mini, who seem to as if have just one goal in life--constantly, languidly nibbling at my leaves and now flowers. 

I returned after an absence of five days, this morning. I'm here for just two days and then I need to travel again. Today was spent part marveling at the progress of the green beings, the magic of the start of bloom on the cucumber and the zucchinis and part wanting to kick myself in the rear for not having done anything thus far on the pest/ insect control front. 

That's the two zucchinis overshadowing almost everything in the vicinity.

And that's its promising flower. The little white abstract doodling you see on the leaf just below the flower is the handiwork of some mysterious bug.

The bell peppers, onion and tomato.

The little, now not so little fellows in the raft system.

Basil

Swiss Chard (I consumed a leaf of this today. Loved it.)

(That's the one that I ate)

Lettuce

Spinach

Cherry Tomato

And then, the cucumber...with its little flowers underneath which hide baby cucumbers. Putting up a brave fight against the pests so far...but ultimately relying on me...to do something.

The top of the plant has reached the ceiling of six and a half feet. It's already beginning to hold on to the criss-cross of the metallic frame.

To wrap it up, all my lethargy finally has been brought to its knees by the little flowers. I've spoken to people and hopefully shall soon be able to report on a much more positive note about the crusade against things 'bugging' my plants.