Allana Dion

Until we moved here I never had a large enough unshared outdoor space to bother with gardening much. Also the little things like feeding my family are a lot more expensive here. So I decided to try making use of the backyard space that I now have.

My yard is a cement patio surrounded by lava rocks and a few flowering bushes. It's not really big (although to us apartment dwellers it was big enough to be a selling point) and what soil there is under the lava rocks is hard and dry and pretty useless. So I'm doing the garden using containers that I can move around on the patio to ensure they get the proper light each day.

I don't know very much about gardening and this is the first time I've really tried it, but I'm looking out the window at what I've accomplished so far today and I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself.

I've got cilantro, parsley, chives, oregano, cherry tomatoes and steak tomatoes, all in their own individual planters. I used large wicker baskets for each of the tomato plants and small plastic planters for each of the herbs.

I bought the baskets and the planters at the dollar store and the plants, seeds, and potting soil at Orchard Supply. The most expensive thing was the potting soil. In total I spent 24$. Not half bad.

I still need to get two more containers and plant the carrots, lettuce and arugula.

I'll report back if it's all dead by next month.

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Khamon

Container Gardening FTW!

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Aki Shichiroji

Dealing with ground creepycrawlies and mushed up dirt in the jeans and weeding and aerating and resulting backache of doing such to lawns and gardenbeds? No thanks, only virtually please

Potted plants are about my limit.

Aki Shichiroji

The herbs should pretty much take care of themselves. Tomatoes love calcium, so if you can get it, pick up some bone meal and feed em what's recommended.

Water in the morning, never in the middle of a hot sunny day, or you'll fry your leaves.

Make sure the pots all have drainage holes, otherwise root rot will set in easily.

Lily Joliat

Sloat Garden Center, San Francisco Nursery, Bay Area Plant Nurseries

Don't know if any of these locations are close to you, but their site is pretty cool. And they give free seminars and what not.

Siggy

Gardening rocks - I've always had the problem of no usable backyard (in the house) or no backyard and tiny balcony only (apartment) ... oh and living in las vegas in the 110 degree summer heat with bugger all humidity.... still I've been experimenting with indoor hydroponics made from crap I have lying around.
It passes the time and I'm having marginal success with my 'tiny tabletop garden'.

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