What is this on my pepper plant?

Everything is moving along quite swimmingly, but I can't help but assume that this squiggly stuff is not a good thing. It's on my Chinese 5 color pepper plant. Any help and advice would be GREATLY appreciated! I need to know what it is and how to treat it please. (If you click on the picture, it will enlarge it)



Also, am I correct to assume this is an aphid? This would be the first one I've seen...


And...yet another potential problem/deficiency. Any identification/advice would be FABULOUS! This is also on a pepper plant.


Ok, on to the happy stuff...

My onions are looking awesome!


My sweet peppers (California Wonder) are doing great


Eggplant is looking good


A very happy tomato plant


Peaches




Bodie is enjoying the warm (horribly hot) weather


Happy Gardening!

Bird's Nest

Look what I found in our fig tree


Happy Monday!

Veggies In The Ground

Today was big...all my plotting and planning finally came to fruition. I guess we'll soon see how well I did! I put about 1/2 of my seedlings in my new raised bed and larger, individual pots. The other half...well, I'll be going to buy more pots and giving some away soon. No complaints here though - I'm just shocked so many plants came up and did so well. Hopefully they will continue to do well and provide us with some food soon.

Here is the bed full of plants. It may look sparse now, but it should fill in quickly. I need to add some trellises soon for the tomatoes and cucumber.


Kale


Red onions


Chard - direct sow


Cherry tomato


Cucumber


Goldman's tomato


Sweet peppers



Chinese 5-color pepper - My husband is thrilled about this plant with it's small, hot peppers


Eggplants


Here are some other plants around the yard that are loving springtime:

Elephant ears


Roses






Happy Planting!

Yes Virginia, It Does Snow In Texas

Well, not all the time this far south, but definitely this year. The last few days have been well below freezing; definitely colder than usual. We even had our pipes freeze up yesterday, which I don't think has ever happened to either of us since we both grew up in Texas. Luckily, my dad walked me through some things to try to unfreeze them....and it worked! Now I've got faucets dripping to try to prevent that.

As much as I love seasons, I'm really ready for Spring. I've been plotting and thinking and planning my vegetable garden for months now. I found a folding table on Craigslist yesterday that I plan to use to start my seeds on. After the seeds move outside, I want to make a cover for it and use it as a craft table. After doing a bit more research about starting seeds, I'm thinking that I need to buy some grow lights. I really don't like the idea of having to hang a large shop light from a ceiling so I'm hoping to find something that stands alone. We'll see...I plan to visit some shops this weekend to find out what's available.

In the meantime, here is a picture of our backyard with snow - not a normal site in Austin, TX!



And a little video of the dogs loving the snow!