Ripening tomatoes and a pink snapdragon by the pond. This and all other photographs by author Luciano Abriata.

My balcony turned into a tomato jungle

A dense rainforest of productive plants.

In previous occasions my balcony has been invaded by snapdragons and marigolds:

Snapdragons show off in my balcony

The summer when small marigolds took over my balcony

With my edible garden project this year, the “invasion” is this time in charge of my tomato plants.

It all started like this as I showed you in one of the first stories about the 2022 balcony orchard project:

Some weeks later, exactly 1 month ago, plants were starting to shoot flowers and even grow some fruits, as I showed you in this story: