Hi everyone!
Finally, I am able to write an update on my container garden and at the same time am joining the Garden Journal Challenge for July. I wrote about my first container garden here. A lot has happened, I harvested all my lettuce but did not plant newbies because I travelled. I will soon start another batch probably next week.
Celery
This is going to be the first plant I will be sharing. I normally would just throw the celery base once I used all the stalks for cooking. But, once I saw years back that I can plant it anew, I have finally tried to do it this year. I first put the cut celery base in a glass of water. Two days after, new leaves were sprouting. So I decided to plant it in soil, that was first week of June. A month after I removed all the dried stalks and today, as you can see the stalks have grown longer now . So even if you just grow them in a pot, it is worth planting and feel good about your success.
Basil....
I bought this in a supermarket with the intention of using it as ingredient for my Pasta Asciutta/Spaghetti. But since I do not need that much leaves, I planted it in container and since then it has grown tremendously.
Blackberry....
I bought this a week ago and it is my first time growing this after knowing that berries can also be grown in containers. The first young leaves came out as a surprise because I thought it will take time to grow. I assume that this will be growing like the raspberry newbie I brought along as an offspring from our former house (also planted in container). I think it will first grow fruit after two years.
Raspberry ...
The small offspring I brought along when we relocated. The old branch developed fruits and I was able to harvest around 9 berries. Actually, I had two raspberry offspring brought from our former house and one I gave to my new neighbor. Hers is still small because she didn´t transfer it in a bigger pot. I suspect that next year there will be more fruits to harvest. I am crossing my fingers. Lol!
Eggplant /Aubergine...
I have two and they are growing nicely... the only thing is it has been too hot the last two weeks that the flowers fell off. Maybe, I thought that the plants are still young ... But this one here is my hope because the petals are getting dry which means that maybe the fruit begins to grow now.
Tomatoes...
I have three plants, two are cherry tomatoes and the other one is called beefsteak tomatoes. The last time grew this was two years ago and the harvest had been plenty. The cherry tomatoes are still reconditioning because of the bad start in cold May. But I think they are doing better because more flowers are coming out now.
The only vegetable that I was not lucky had been the zucchini, it didn´t grow as what I had hoped for... So I think the setback had been the small container . The first time I grew this was in a barrel container and I let it have one fruit only and it grew as huge as the bottle of a two-liter Coke. Lol. I am hoping for many tomato harvest, wish me luck!
Shoutout....
I am calling my friends @olivia08 @sarimanok @met2selah @jurich60 to come and join the Garden Journal Challenge here at the Natural Medicine Community. Thank you to the Natural Medicine team for initiating this challenge.
That´s all for now and I wish you all Happy Gardening!
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You're welcome @mers 😊🌹 Nice motivation, keep going with that great energy!
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I love to see how people bring a piece of nature into their homes, that's wonderful. Beautiful photographs, beautiful plants. Basil is a beauty. Greetings.
Hello @sirenahippie.... thank you for your lovely comment. I have been container gardening ever since I could not grow my veggies in the garden of our former house because of the slugs. We always have an invasion of slugs because we are near the crop fields. It was safer to plant upstairs where they could not reach. Lol, cheers!
Ah, I am very sorry to hear that, it is sad not to be able to take advantage of our own land due to the presence of a plague. I hope one day they can eliminate those slugs. Greetings.
Thank you for curating my post and suggesting it to the Lotus Recommends project. I hope to post more contents here as soon as I have enough time. Keep up the good work of finding good contents ... your curation is important for aspiring content creators like me, Lol, because you inspire us! Have a lovely weekend ahead!
What beautiful words! It is great to hear that our work is an encouragement for content creators. I look forward to seeing more beautiful, well-made, genuine, quality posts, like the one I've curated today. Greetings @mers.
Will try my best dear, Thanks once again!
I know some Blurt friends from Venezuela, am not sure whether you also know them because some are also here on Hive... @vickyguevara, @blessed-girl, @angelica7, @freakeao... and @denissemata.
Have a lovely weekend, enjoy your Saturday!
Have a nice Saturday!
Hello dear @sirenahippie, I think slugs are everywhere and hard to eliminate. But I hope the authorities are doing something. Some gardeners accept this plague so they do some prevention by using eggshells, beer, and some in powder form scattered around the plant to prevent them from attacking it. Have a lovely Frday!
I"m always so amazed at container gardening - it's so different to what I do in my huge garden. Those tomatoes look great - what variety are they?
Hi ! It is called here Beefsteak Tomatoes...I am not sure why it is called so. Their shape is that of a heart.
WOW! You're really blessed with green thumb my dear!
Thank you for sharing and for the invitation as well.
Dear @sarimanok ..Thanks commenting and for coming over. Hope you will join us too! Cheers!
It makes sense to plant your used herbs. I always do.
Your tomatoes are looking good wish you a great harvest.
My zucchini is always harvested by rodents so I've given up on growing them lol
Happy gardening.
Thanks dear. Yeah, I´ve been so unsuccessful with zucchinis. But I will try again next time. I think that if I let all the flowers grow into fruit, they will die off because of space.... then lately, I thought of letting only two grow, but then it didn´t grow further and became stagnant... that´s the time, I gave up...lololol!
We learn with each season. I need to learn to prevent the rodents from eating up all my fruit LOL
Hala ka ibog ko sa kamatis sa lahat but akso yang mga berries wala pa ko ka tilaw ana. Mers pag post daw how mo gi plant yang kamatis mo unsay pataba imong gi butang?
Mga newbies ang kamatis, gamay pa mapalit sa shop... mao na uso diri , but you can also plant from seeds.... pataba ko used coffee
Tomatoes like balconies but it's difficult to grow vegetables in pots. Yours look good
Thanks dear...we had a bad start because of cold April til first half of June. But now it´s hot and they are thriving...
You've really got a knack for growing all these edible yummy herbs, fruits and veggies! @mers🌿👩🌾🍓
LOL, Thanks Nina dear... Cheers and lovely greetings from Vienna.
What an incredible garden, congratulations for this wonderful work, which serves as an example for us to do our own.
Dear @talentclub, I used to grow vegetables in container in my former house. We had a roof terrace and that was where I grew because our garden downstairs were visited by slugs since we were near the crop fields. So the slugs were having fiestas in our garden as well as in our neighbors garden. I was quite successful in growing so I harvested plenty of lettuce and other veggies. Many thanks and have a lovely Friday ahead.
Garden eggs. Also there are white/cream garden eggs. May be different spechies.
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