K is for Kitchen Garden

[wyld_dandelyon]

I love having a kitchen garden. It's hard to do in a city full of wildlife (I have squirrels, possums, raccoons, rabbits, and homeless bipeds roaming my neighborhood), but it's satisfying to grow your own food and things picked fresh are much tastier than store-bought

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I actually _finally_ started seeds...

[nimitzbrood]

Got the seeds started indoors. Stevia, heirloom cherry tomatoes, and heirloom Danvers carrots. So far only one tiny set of stevia leaves but it's been less than a week now.

I'm going to do my damnedest to get the full garden going this year. Depends on how much time I can devote to it though...

Re: I actually _finally_ started seeds...

[wyld_dandelyon]

Yeah, time is always an issue.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Do you have enough sun? Other than not enough light, the hardest thing with indoor plants is the right amount of water; besides giving them good drainage, you need to know if they like damp or mostly dry and then stick your finger into their dirt daily to check it. I haven't found anything that works as well as the finger test.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Are you feeling the dirt to see how much moisture it has?

Are you trying to keep plants alive that were pushed to bloom in a greenhouse? (That's hard--they are usually in the smallest pot that leaves them healthy enough to bloom and need to be repotted as soon as they're used to the new-local conditions of your home).

[msstacy13]

When I had a yard,
the squirrels, in particular, were too aggressive,
especially after the first year.

[msstacy13]

Oh, I almost forgot--
(wait for it)
You grow your own kitchen?

[red_trillium]

Happy Gardening! Mine has gone the way it always does---growing the best it can while being neglected. We had a drought so many plants didn't fare as well as they should have if I'd been up more up on the watering :*(