I'm trying container gardening again this summer. This time I have 3 Topsy-Turvy planters and a potted sweet basil. The sweet basil is growing like gangbusters...most successful basil I've ever had, in fact ( Read more... )

I went away for the weekend and came back to find three baby tomatoes growing in my container garden. :) There are also some female buds on my squash plants, and my herbs are doing well. Yay.

Not just for my mood, but for my plants. They have grown noticeably over the course of the weekend. All the squash plants are forming buds, and the largest tomato plant has a little yellow flower. The mint is sending up tiny new shoots of leaves. I foresee mojitos and other minty things ( Read more... )

Just before Baitcon thespian helped me get a bunch of seedlings and potted herbs planted on my front porch. I wasn't at all sure how well they'd do with all this rain and profound lack of sunshine we've been having, but so far nothing's died.

• Tomato seedlings: All looking pretty robust, though not quite yet at the point of needing staking
• Squash seedlings: ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago Trowa and I accompanied thespian to a workshop on container gardening. It seemed like a fun idea, but I hadn't managed to follow through...until now. On Sunday I procured several mystery tomato and squash seedlings from someone in JP who was removing volunteers from her compost bed, and this afternoon I went to the garden center at ( Read more... )