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My boyfriend and I just started our own "garden" this spring on our 5x5 balcony (that gets southwest exposure). WE have a small box of strawberries, a box with a lattice for pole beans, and two hanging bags - one for tomatoes and one for peppers. It's been two weeks and we haven't killed a single thing! We have three "trios" of strawberries and they go from totally blooming with signs of berries to just green and thriving. Our hanging peppers, while small, are very green and show signs of budding. Our tomatoes are growing with signs of budding, but a few of the leaves are starting to curl (should I water them more, do you think?). The most exciting are the pole beans. The seed packet just said to stick them 4" apart and an inch deep. So we did. Didn't start them indoors or anything, just stuck them in the ground. Right now we have about 6 or 8 little sprouts with leaves. It's super exciting to watch! Now if only I had a back yard...we've been reading about aquaponics and are itching to try it out...
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Apr 7, 2009 21:48
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Hooray! We have pictures! I've set up a flicker set with our balcony garden. The pics right now are from last week, but I'll try to update every week or two, just to show the growth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/megmeleon/sets/72157616718858874/ My boyfriend just set up a new planter today on the balcony that's not photographed. He bought a half wine barrel from a local wine shop. We propped it up on some pvp couplings and filled it with dirt and broadcasted some carrot and beet seeds over it. Here's to a grand adventure!
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Apr 18, 2009 04:02
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Wooo! We have little carrots and beetlings growing in our wine vat! I went out to check on the planties this morning and sure enough, there were itty bitty sprouts coming up from the soil. Of course, three days of unseasonally warm weather probably helped with that, but dude - we're gonna have carrots and beets! YAY!
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Apr 23, 2009 19:45
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krushgroove posted:Very cool Excellent suggestion seeing how our chives in our aerogrow garden are kinda lackluster (yes, I have one of those outrageously priced hydroponic gardens as seen on TV...but to be fair I got it on sale for $40) so I'll pick up some seeds soon! Question: my boyfriend (the carrots are his project so he's doing the research) says that once the carrots and beets are large enough to move, we plant them in rows to give them space. Should we plant the chives before or after this?
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Apr 23, 2009 21:08
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I'd recommend planting some chives amongst the carrots, it helps stop the carrot fly from planting its larvae on your carrots. They don't take up much space like onions would and they're good to add to anything!