Balcony Garden

The Balcony Garden This Year

I didn’t grow many things up on the balcony this year; I usually have pots ringed all around the balcony. But time was an issue this year with the bookstore an stuff. I grew peppers, okra, and tomatoes on the balcony, and we even had a few pots of blackberries growing.
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Growing Tomatoes Upside-Down July 21st 2008

They are growing rapidly, so far upright. I wonder when they’ll start to hang down?
Same pot July 12th:
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Balcony Garden Progress

Some pics of the balcony garden. Like the in-grown garden I’m kinda letting my balcony garden go wild this year. Up here I’m growing beans, peppers, okra, yellow squash, and cherry tomatoes. I wasn’t going to try growing squash in a pot on the balcony because the squash plants get so huge and [...]

Last Bit of Spinach

Spinach, as you may know, is a cool-weather growing plant. This means it grows best in the spring or fall. Hot summer weather makes it go to seed. I harvested all the spinach in my ground garden and pulled the plants out. I had a few spinach plants growing in pots on my back porch, [...]

Old-School Watering Can

We were cleaning out the basement the other day and look what I found! I was just going to buy a watering can, so I am thrilled. To think this was sitting in my basement, all this time! It’s perfect. It makes watering my balcony veggies so much easier. Before, to water them I would [...]