Container gardening

Corn, yellow & green beans, tomatoes, green peppers. Squash, zucchini, rubarb. Carrots and radishes. These are some of the vegetables my family would grow in our garden when I was growing up. Oh, how I would have a love/hate relationship with that garden. "Hey girls, can you go out & pick the beans?" "Daaaad, do we haaave to?" But the food, it was always amazing & the fresh veggies were plentiful all summer long.

Its strange, the things you miss about your childhood. I never thought I would miss those gardening days. But having spent a few years away from those fresh foods straight out of the backyard, I miss it. I grew tired of paying the prices for food from the supermarket, food that sometimes isn't even of a decent quality. But what is a girl to do when she lives in an apartment?

Container gardening!

I recently planted lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, rosemary, chives, basil, parsley, mint, & catnip on my 3rd floor balcony. No worries about pesky animals up here getting to my plants before I do. Even though the plants are on a balcony, they get sunlight all morning. I do have to water them often (at least every other day or 2 depending on how hot it is outside....I can always tell by how wilted my lettuce looks).

The plants are doing quite well in their containers. No fruits on the tomatoes or peppers yet, but I have used pretty much everything else. The lettuce is actually doing very well, it loves the colder than normal weather that has been present.


Hopefully the plants will do well all summer long. Will update with foods that I make that include the herbs or veggies! :)

Nemo enjoying the catnip