It’s amazing how much these two potatoes have grown. They look like they really like the self-watering boxes, with all the water and nutrients they would ever need. It might be difficult to see in the picture, but the leaves are actually beginning to turn a bit yellow near the stems. It turned out that
This is starting to look like a small tree. Maybe I should have used a tomato specific fertilizer instead of a generic one. The self-watering box is definitely delivering everthing the two tomato plants need – and perhaps a little more than that 😉 The box was actually nearly empty so I have filled it
These tomato plants are from the same store, and they were bought during the same week.
This is a fine spot for another self-watering box. This wall is facing south and the patio is surrounded by bushes, so the temperature will be high when the sun hits. Unfortunately, the concrete slabs are not level and I don’t want the self-watering box to break when the water is added. I will even
It’s time for another collection of raised bed designs from around the world. The kitchen gardeners out there are really creative when it comes to shapes and materials used. Although many types of raised bed kits for gardens are available in shops you might get inspired to construct your very own based on the gallery
Oh boy 😀 it’s gonna be Friday all week… :
Bamboo sticks can be used for many different things when you have a kitchen garden. I’m using one bamboo stick for each of my tomato plants to hold up the metal cage tomato trellis: The bamboo sticks run all the way to the bottom of the soil tube inside the self-watering container and stabilizes the
He has been growing fruits and vegetables for four years now together with his wife Joyce. They preserve part of what they grow in a root cellar and they even have enough to sell some of it at the local market. Propagation by seeds, cuttings and root division is a big part of their gardening
It’s not Friday yet, but this is just too funny 😉 This is the best performing Victory Garden I’ve ever seen: (found it on sacramentogardening.blogspot.com…)
This ebook on how to grow tomatoes is written by Lucia Grimmer and Annette Welsford. Lucia has a Masters Degree in Plant Pathology and works as a technical nutrition specialist in the fertilizer industry. Annette has a partial degree in Horticulture. For me as an amateur grower this puts some weight behind the 37,000 words
