This plant is two years old

I planted my first plant in this apartment nearly three years ago. It was the result of a walk through a supermarket with my friend, where I suddenly saw the stuff needed for gardening and tried planting some herbs.

I had some moderately happy plants from the seeds that I bought. One day I was wondering to myself if I can get a capsicum plan from the seeds of bell peppers in the home. I took about 4 bell peppers and extracted their seeds. I planted the seed in the soil and watered it. After a month of watering I didn’t see anything growing. Suddenly, after 5 months a the capsicum appeared. The seeds were waiting for the right temperature to start sprouting.

This plant is now 2 years old. I have harvested about 5 small bell peppers from it. It’s beautiful and flowers during spring. Each year some branches die during the winter. Some leaves get infested with pests and I have to cut it but it continues to grow.

I’m not sure how long it’s going to continue, I’ve heard that these plants stop producing edible parts at some point. But anyway I’m glad that I like plants. It makes the house beautiful and you produce something you can eat. It feels great.

This year it started to grow some baby capsicum plants.

The hardest part of maintaining it was the pests. These are susceptible tospider mites. They usually live behind the leaves and eat the juice inside them and slowly kill them. I usually just wash the leaves with water and spray with pest killers. Last year another funny thing happened. I found a mint plant on the street. It was completely healthy so I took it home. And that’s how I broughtWhitefly into my home. It was really hard to get them out. They quickly spread among my plants including this one. One night I gathered all of my pots and started cleaning the leaves. Whiteflies mostly live on the leaves.

You might think that I learned my lesson to not bring plants from the street into my home. I didn’t, just last week I brought 3 pots inside. 2 of them were v…