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Balcony "Garden" Update
Feeling frustrated with plants, but given the weather (extreme heat), I'm trying not to take it as a critique on my own lack of skill or effort.
I think almost every day in the last 2-3 weeks has been in the 90s-100s. It is gross out.
Plants I'm probably going to toss because I'm pretty sure they're dead:
Irish moss
tiny grass plant in a planter that made it look like hair on some dude
Ivy (not 100% sure this is dead yet)
Plants that are sort of surviving:
Basil (but this is the least successful basil plant I've ever had)
Red runner bean plant (the flowers were brief, sadness)
Spider plant (seems to be thriving, that bastard)
Morning glory (I'd intended to pot this, but it's already climbed around a chive, snaked itself around the basil, and has found its way to the balcony. NINJA PLANT.)
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So sick of the strawberry pot, which holds lavender, chives, thyme, rosemary, and oregano. Every time I water it in the top, water comes out the side, and it always takes dirt with it. It's messy, & I find it obnoxious to deal with.
The dresser drawer (as described previously, I drilled holes in the bottom & lined it with plastic). It holds a bunch of lettuce, collard greens, and a broccoli plant, plus 3 things I had tried to grow from seed (which are now dead from the heat): marigolds, arugula, and some other kind of lettuce. The collard leaves were chewed almost immediately by bugs, as soon as I put it out on the balcony. The dirt inside this drawer is teeming with bugs. Not just like, a couple, but everywhere. Gross! This morning I noticed tiny, gross-looking mushrooms growing in it (not planted, obviously!). Pretty sure I'm going to throw the whole thing out as soon as my apartment complex's dumpster is emptied (so there's room), and someone can help me carry it down (so I don't have to hug it next to my chest, ugh).
So, yeah. Frustrated with gardening in general. On the upside, there will be fewer plants to move to my new apartment, and maybe if I tidy up the few I've got left, I can bring them inside on hot days, and hopefully revive them a little. (Minus the red runner bean plant, which is tangled around a trellis & too big to move.)
Also recycling: a stash of toilet paper rolls, empty water bottles I'd hoarded to use as watering things/cloches for seedlings.
Keeping: Seeds, seeds, seeds. Pots.
I think almost every day in the last 2-3 weeks has been in the 90s-100s. It is gross out.
Plants I'm probably going to toss because I'm pretty sure they're dead:
Irish moss
tiny grass plant in a planter that made it look like hair on some dude
Ivy (not 100% sure this is dead yet)
Plants that are sort of surviving:
Basil (but this is the least successful basil plant I've ever had)
Red runner bean plant (the flowers were brief, sadness)
Spider plant (seems to be thriving, that bastard)
Morning glory (I'd intended to pot this, but it's already climbed around a chive, snaked itself around the basil, and has found its way to the balcony. NINJA PLANT.)
?!
So sick of the strawberry pot, which holds lavender, chives, thyme, rosemary, and oregano. Every time I water it in the top, water comes out the side, and it always takes dirt with it. It's messy, & I find it obnoxious to deal with.
The dresser drawer (as described previously, I drilled holes in the bottom & lined it with plastic). It holds a bunch of lettuce, collard greens, and a broccoli plant, plus 3 things I had tried to grow from seed (which are now dead from the heat): marigolds, arugula, and some other kind of lettuce. The collard leaves were chewed almost immediately by bugs, as soon as I put it out on the balcony. The dirt inside this drawer is teeming with bugs. Not just like, a couple, but everywhere. Gross! This morning I noticed tiny, gross-looking mushrooms growing in it (not planted, obviously!). Pretty sure I'm going to throw the whole thing out as soon as my apartment complex's dumpster is emptied (so there's room), and someone can help me carry it down (so I don't have to hug it next to my chest, ugh).
So, yeah. Frustrated with gardening in general. On the upside, there will be fewer plants to move to my new apartment, and maybe if I tidy up the few I've got left, I can bring them inside on hot days, and hopefully revive them a little. (Minus the red runner bean plant, which is tangled around a trellis & too big to move.)
Also recycling: a stash of toilet paper rolls, empty water bottles I'd hoarded to use as watering things/cloches for seedlings.
Keeping: Seeds, seeds, seeds. Pots.
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ALSO, the plants that I bought just barely fit inside of it - I bought them already grown, so there were pretty significant root clusters, even after I tried to shake off excess dirt and manipulate them a little bit.
But next year I hope to buy them a little younger, and stick them in more/better.
ALTHOUGH, I guess the lavender which is on top, is the one that's nearest death, so maybe when it dies I'll be able to take it out and stick a bottle in.
I like the idea of these & how they look, and I'm not hurting for space at all, so if I can get the watering thing to work, I'd probably do it again.
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http://www.yougrowgirl.com/2009/05/30/growing-an-edible-strawberry-pot/