Porch Gardening

[wyld_dandelyon]

So, I've been meaning to take a picture of the second floor of my front porch, which is currently home to all but one of the biggest tomato plants I've got this year. (I got two planted out in the yard; only one of those has survived

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[lb_lee]

Your porch garden looks so nice! I hope to have a garden of my own when we come back from our trip. I'd love to have basil, tomatoes, and other yummy things! Right now I just have an aloe vera.

--Sneak

[wyld_dandelyon]

Thank you!

Basil needs a lot of sun, but not a lot of space. Tomatoes get big; I have a big house so I'm not worried about that. I hope you can have a garden of your own!

[queenoftheskies]

What a beautiful garden! I've considered balcony gardening every year, but I never get started in time.

[wyld_dandelyon]

I know how hard it is to get things started. It seems hard to remember to start seedlings when it's all frozen outside and you're only home while it's dark outside.

[laylalawlor]

Oh, this looks really lovely! :) I love looking at pictures of people's gardens. My tomatoes are already dead of an early frost; so sad, but the price for living in Alaska, I guess.

You might know this already, but you can encourage your tomato flowers to self-fertilize by lightly tapping or shaking the flower clusters. I do this with my greenhouse tomatoes because they don't get very many bees in there. I'm not sure if it's entirely necessary, but they do set tomatoes, so I'm not going to stop!

[wyld_dandelyon]

Thank you.

That's a good point for fertilizing in the winter. Winter-fresh tomatoes would be lovely. I'll have to get something resembling a grow light, however...

[wyld_dandelyon]

Thanks. Me too!

They are just from Menards, not special, but I am enjoying them.

[msstacy13]

Nice pix. Thank you.

If I live in this apartment long enough,
I might try gardening on the roof next door.

Maybe you could resort to artificial pollination?