Gardening

[dancerjodi]

I'm getting excited about the spring arriving and I'm hoping to spend more time outside this year, both relaxing, entertaining and gardening. We have limited areas with full sun so we may try to grow some edibles in the front yard (that space really need some love and some more interesting growth). We're also going to try tomatoes in pots, because I'd love to have more of my own and our shallow herb garden bed isn't deep enough I think to get good growth. We'll still do herbs next to the garage, and I'm hoping to clean up and plant some in our main yard on the side of the house. Our rain barrel came in really handy last year. I may think of setting up some kind of composting process but I'm not quite there yet and need to do a lot more research on it.

A coworker is selling some plants for her daughter's school fundraiser, so I ordered some for borders: blazing stars, bleeding hearts, day lilies and persian buttercups. It going to be a while until I can plant anything outside and I don't have safe space away from cats to start anything inside of the house but in the meantime I can do some planning and once it gets a bit warmer, some clearing.

Comments

[fidgetmonster.livejournal.com]

I don't know about your neighbourhood, but when i lived in somerville things from the front yard got "picked" a lot--and not by me. If there are enough poor and hungry (or amoral) people walking by your place, you might not get as much veg as you wish :(

[dancer.livejournal.com]

I am kind of worried about this. I thought I may try and plant things that may not be obviously food (like carrots and that kind of thing). I can't get them to grow anywhere else, so I may just try and see.

[roaming.livejournal.com]

If you don't have dirt space, you can grow tomatoes upside down". And order planters for doing it. So maybe you could hang them in the sun off your front porch if that's where you get the most light.

[devina.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to some of my tomato seedlings if they actually take off. :)

[lsl.livejournal.com]

I've had very good luck growing tomatoes in pots. I've used gallon buckets (cheap from home depot) with holes drilled in the bottoms for drainage and sitting inside big plastic plant trays. The best part is that you can put them anywhere to get the best sun (even in the driveway), but you need to be sure to water them enough in the really hot weather. The buckets are big enough to put tomato cages in them too and it's easy to use good soil and fertilize as well.