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by Skud,
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by melannen,
I think I have tomatoes! Last year we planted four cherry tomato plants from the local nursery/produce stand (one flat worth) and three of them just sort of spindled along, sickly-looking and not growing much, putting out one fruit here and there. The fourth one became The Tomato…
by wrdnrd,
This is a nearly-5-year-old blog post, but i just ran across it and it addresses just about every mistake i've made/had in my little balcony garden. Really useful!
[Ten Mistakes New Herb Gardeners Make (and How to Avoid Them!)](http://skinnygourmet.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/ten-mistakes-new-herb-g…
by carene,
We made a blunder last year and packed the compost layers in too tight. Oh, and the main brown material was straw.
I used to read about people making icehouses in this area with straw packed around the ice blocks and still having ice in July. Now I believe it.
The compost has been mostly pu…
by Skud,
Our landlords tried to make our rental property's garden low-maintenance by filling it the beds with all kinds of perennial shrubs and small trees. Unfortunately they planted everything really close together and it's caused all kinds of problems – things under trees not getting enough light, th…
sunflowers
lavender
squash
by Skud,
It's autumn here.
A couple of weeks ago I was cleaning up brown, dry, dead-ish tomato plants and started by cutting them off a few inches above ground level with the secateurs, meaning to come along later and pull out the root balls and deal with the remainders of the soil in the containers.
S…
by melannen,
Most of the rest of my seedlings came up last week all together - I had forgotten how violently beens and squash can grow - so I did a bunch of transplanting. All but two of the seeds I started came up, and I think one of the other two is about to - I am gratified! Although if …
zucchini
squash
by gotica,
I finally got frustrated enough to establish one of the raised beds the other week, using a combination of enriched coir and compost.
I've sown Purple Haze carrots, brussels sprouts, purple broccoli, peas, turnips, english spinach and have transplanted two [zucchini](/crops/zuc…
zucchini
strawberries
spinach
by SporkyRat,
I have tomato seedlings! I need to see about transferring them to a larger pot than the little seedling pot they're in. I have several trays that I need to sprout some seeds in as well for other things.
by maco,
I think it would be nice to have raised beds tall enough to not need to bend over constantly. For building them, I'm thinking about cinder blocks, since they're pretty cheap. Has anyone here done waist-high cinder block raised beds? Did you need to mortar the blocks together, or did you use somet…
by oakandsage,
Something's skeletonizing my carrots and dill. It did a number on the sweet basil I planted, and is taking out the kale plants one by one. I haven't caught it in the act yet, though I've seen a couple big fat grasshoppers around; they're pretty likely culprits.
M…
blueberries
dill
sweet potatoes
carrots
cauliflowers
by neotoma,
I came home from work yesterday, and I had three inch-high tomato plants of the Abraham Lincoln cultivar.
I came home today, and they're two inches tall! Yay!
Now, hopefully th…
tomatoes