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Cornifying your Balcony
Last year, I tried growing corn on my balcony. It grew to just over two feet tall and tried valiantly to tassel. But despite its best efforts, it couldn't overcome the fact that I had no idea what I was doing.
I was determined to learn from my mistakes and try again this year. I did a lot more reading and selected a container that was about five ( Read more... ) -
Garden Update - July 2009
So "a few days" turned into nearly two weeks. Yikes. About time I finally provided a garden update, don't you think?
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Potato Beetles!
Two days ago, I noticed one of the leaves on my potato plants had a few holes in it. Today I was planting some more onion sets and noticed something small and yellowish on one of the branches of my potatoes. Aha! The culprit! I have at least one Colorado potato beetle in my crop. I tried to pick him off but I was predictably clumsy and ended up ( Read more... ) -
Growing Potatoes in Containers
Before I begin, I should say that I did a lot of reading about potatoes in containers to get an idea of what to do. There are actually a lot of sites out there that describe how to do it, so it's probably not necessary for me to write up my process. However, since I created this blog to track lessons I've learned, I'm going to anyway.
( Potatoes: The fastest growing plant on my balcony (image heavy) ) -
Why I love my garden...
I love my garden because it's a serene oasis ( Read more... ) -
Here we grow!
My balcony garden is coming along nicely. I'm out there several times a day talking to fussing with my plants and chatting with random passerby on the sidewalk below who stop and say fantastic things like "What's that thing you're growing that looks like corn?" or "Are those onions?"
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Starting from seeds
For me, starting plants from seeds has always been something to keep me occupied until it was finally warm enough to get "real plants". Before, I've used those compressed peat pellets that expand when put in water.
Good news: That expansion process is a lot of fun to watch (I don't get out much).
Bad news: My seedlings would invariably have ( Read more... ) -
Garden Update
Well, July's here and summer is finally underway. The garden I put in at my brother's place is apparently doing well, though I haven't been out there to see it in a while. My own balcony garden is, as usual, overpopulated with plants. I got carried away. Again ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
So, more than a month after the so-called "first in a series of articles", I've finally come to the realisation that I've grossly overestimated my "free time" this summer. I still plan to write about my gardening experience and experiments, but at the moment, I barely have time to plant my veggies, let alone actually write about it. At the very ( Read more... ) -
Container Zucchini-ing
This is the first in a series of posts that I’m planning to write, outlining some of the things I learned during my balcony gardening last summer. Since there was a question over at
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