Saturday, May 23, 2009

container gardening

i'm not sure about my green thumb. i wanted to try growing some of our own food this year but my gardening record is not exactly stellar. plus we have two black walnuts on the edge of our property. wanna know what grows under a black walnut? not a whole lot.

the solution? containers. i hauled out all of planters and hit the garden centre this morning with betherooni and amy. i came home with cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, red peppers, snow peas, basil, parsley, rosemary, coriander, and a few flowers for the planters out front. i'm excited to see how we do.

2 comments:

Fern @ Life on the Balcony said...

FYI, your tomato plants will need much bigger pots. Something in the 18inch+ range.

Good luck and have fun!

Trixie said...

hi,

thanks for the tip! the tomato plants on the table are cherry tomato plants and i'm hoping they're large enough. a friend had the same variety last year in a similar sized planter and they seemed to be fine and tasty! i do have a much larger planter on ground (not in the picture) with the full on tomato plants.