V for Victory (I hope…)
Published January 18th, 2007 in General
In anticipation of spring and hopefully having a container garden on our porch, I ordered a bunch of things from Seed Savers Exchange:
• Genovese Basil
• Five Color Silverbeet Swiss Chard
• Yugoslavian Red Butterhead Lettuce
• Italian Heirloom Tomato
• Speckled Cranberry Beans
• Thai Hot Pepper
• Listada de Gandia Eggplant
• Dragon Carrot
• Tom Thumb Peas
And two little weirdo things:
• Two Inch Strawberry Popcorn
• Sunberries
Along with some flowers:
• Heirloom Flower Collection
I’m also going to try some fingerling potatoes in a bucket, as I was told it’s really easy to do.
I fully expect that most everything will die miserably, but as I’ve been able to keep 5 plants alive inside the house with the threat of two kitties about, I have hopes of some success. However, I am haunted by the basil I tried to grow when I last lived in Syracuse that was incinerated by the direct sunlight on the porch area.
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Those eggplants and that lettuce are gorgeous.
Good luck with the container garden. And I’ll be interested to hear about growing the potatoes in a container. I remember once reading about an intriguing method for growing potatoes in a container with dirt covered with straw. The straw could be pulled back to harvest potatoes without disturbing the plant. I’ve always been interested in how well the method works but have never tried it.