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CindyLouWho:
For those of you who don't have the space or maybe the time or ambition this year, maybe you can try potting a few tomato or bean plants on your steps or deck just to test your green thumb. I used to do a lot of this when I lived in a townhouse. My bean plants flourished in pots as did cherry tomatoes. Here are some sites I found to get the creative juices flowing. I have been out tilling and raking and picking the last of the stones out of my little plot today and can't wait for that first, fresh-picked zucchini! And last year my neighbors threw some pumpkin seeds in a huge pile of horse crap and had some beautiful pumpkins in the fall! (Which we are planning on doing as well.)
http://www.gardenguides.com/how-to/tipstechniques/containerindoor/container.asp
http://www.containergardeningtips.com/
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/container/container.html
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_container_gardening/article/
I am sure Gore has some suggestions from the look of his picture postings.
Kimmi:
Thank you for this. Awesome!
CindyLouWho:
Your welcome! Was hoping someone would get some inspiration.
I just love whipping up a home cooked meal and walking out to get the veggies fresh out of my garden. I love sending everyone home with some fresh goodies too when they visit. (I think they like it too.) The first summer I did container gardening I only had two pots. One with beans and one with cherry tomatoes. It grew from there. Had pots all over the place. I still do some on my front patio . Looks nice and saves room in the garden for the sprawling messier stuff. Broccoli grows nice in a pot and looks pretty too!
Foodie:
I bought the upside down Topsy Turvy thing from QVC and it was recalled. Mine is a bit different and is on a 6' stand. I got it in March and I still have not heard from QVC or got a refund but it has been RECALLED. It's junk from China so don't buy those ;)
Last year I had 100 hot pepper plants in every kind of container I could find. My tomatoes didn't do too well in containers but I did have some, which is great.
I wish I could have more but I live in a very tiny city lot.
gore range:
....I'm not a real green-thumb person; just have more or less learned over the years what works nicely/easily for where ever I was located. About as risky as I get any more is growing my Columbines at our lower mile-high high-desert elevation....
.... I used to have a scores of indoor leafy vines, but gave them away when I got my final military assignment to Air Force Special Ops Command, knowing I'd likely be deployed more than I was home. I was....
....I started off pinching off a couple of inches of the vines in restaurants and what-nots & stick them in my shirt pocket; then, drop them in a glass of water when I got home until they rooted. Then, pinched the home crop and before you knew it it was tropical even in the dead of an Omaha SAC winter....
....got away from it for a fair while, but then working through some post-retirement seasonal affective disorder issues- the house plants came to mind....
....gave it some though, applied modern Hobby Lobby technology, and am loving the care-free life;
....all silk/all fake.... ;D
....everything is modular-mounted & in the the late spring I take each unit out on the desk, spray each one down with a water/dish soap mixture in a gallon sprayer, then hit then it with the a quick blast of the garden hose for a 10-sec cleaning/dusting. Of course, in my dry air, they dry PDQ, and its a quick assembly line production....
....but, then, the mile-high high-desert backyard makes up for it.... ;D
....in door plants- watering from the bottom never let me down.... ;)
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