![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikSo we're staying in this apartment another year. Which means no real garden, and no room for a dedicated lab. (But no moving, and the awesome commute, and the apartment managers who don't freak out about the chemical deliveries, and deal with the martial arts, and the great view...)
But I figured I'd work on what garden we do have for consolation. And really, for an apartment, it's pretty productive. Right now we have peppers (both ripening and just starting to set fruit) several squash plants (K's are winter, mine summer... and I might put in another one or two) rosemary, basil, mint, garlic chives and oregano, pitcher plants, and now eggplants, different basil and blue lake beans that have been recently planted and not come up yet. Might need some more beans, too. (Hanging string from the support bar of the blinds and training things up them worked for squash, so I'm pretty confident about the beans.) And I'd like to pick up one indeterminate tomato. (No Kendrick, really, I won't make you eat any.)
BTW, the secret of our success (and why my container garden on the barge looked like this, even early in the season)? Okay, some of it is paying attention to waterings and drainage, and making sure they get decent light, and the general stuff, but the biggest bit is that I buy my fertilizers from a place that specializes in nutrients for hydroponics rigs. (Foxfarm Grow Big.) Hey, if I'm growing things in the ground I'll compost and... oh wait, we do that here too. But really, containers generally need more nutrients, and if you're trying to make the most of limited space, good fertilizer is huge.
Thinking of putting some basil and arugula in the annex...
But I figured I'd work on what garden we do have for consolation. And really, for an apartment, it's pretty productive. Right now we have peppers (both ripening and just starting to set fruit) several squash plants (K's are winter, mine summer... and I might put in another one or two) rosemary, basil, mint, garlic chives and oregano, pitcher plants, and now eggplants, different basil and blue lake beans that have been recently planted and not come up yet. Might need some more beans, too. (Hanging string from the support bar of the blinds and training things up them worked for squash, so I'm pretty confident about the beans.) And I'd like to pick up one indeterminate tomato. (No Kendrick, really, I won't make you eat any.)
BTW, the secret of our success (and why my container garden on the barge looked like this, even early in the season)? Okay, some of it is paying attention to waterings and drainage, and making sure they get decent light, and the general stuff, but the biggest bit is that I buy my fertilizers from a place that specializes in nutrients for hydroponics rigs. (Foxfarm Grow Big.) Hey, if I'm growing things in the ground I'll compost and... oh wait, we do that here too. But really, containers generally need more nutrients, and if you're trying to make the most of limited space, good fertilizer is huge.
Thinking of putting some basil and arugula in the annex...
