My Garden...Do you have one? (Pics included)

[RICHARD]

I picked another zucchini today.

I didn't know that there were any under the leaves, the huge one I stumbled upon!

I also have basil, catnip, another tomato tree and an avocado I started from a seed!

I have a some peppers that are taking forever to grow and my other tomato/chile bucket!


No mater pics, I tend to eat them as soon as the come into the house.

I did make salsa with some tomatoes.

It rocked!

I'll take pics of my other pepper and zucchini plants tomorrow?


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If you are planting seeds, read the package carefully and try to figure out when they will germinate, you can time it so that everything matures at once, or you can stagger the timing so you have time to tend to each plant as you like.

Small containers, like cottage cheese or yougurt cups are great 'starter' pots, fill them with potting soil, plant your seeds and wait!

If you are planting to the ground? Prep the soil with compost or go to a home improvement center and look for additives.

My soil is hard and clay like, I broke it up with a hoe, sifted the dirt with a screen and added soil amender. Tough work, but well worth the satisfaction.

I water in the morning and early evening, lightly. When the plants sprouted, I bought plant food and everyone gets fed once a week!

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The hanging planter is my fave!

I came across some plastic water jugs, took a Dremel tool and cut the tops off them.

I used the bottom as a pot to put the plants that I got from the nursery into, I then took the tops and with the same machine cut holes into them, strung rope thru and have a neat little hanging planter to start my plants.

I placed some plant "fabric" into the bottom of the tops so the soil would not fall out and tossed some small plants into them to get them started.