What's in your Garden (& Indoor Plants)

[silva]

I think mine is an American- I think it's green? I do still have it, it has saved us from getting fined for long grass
Growing up that's what we had, but if I remember right, we had just one kind of grass, it all looked the same, and "grass green" . Here it's a hodge podge of widths, lengths, colors....

 

[KLS52]

I want this so bad…fence made from old doors…it’s gorgeous!!

 

[silva]

I want this so bad…fence made from old doors…it’s gorgeous!!

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I love it, esp having random windows. I wonder what the back looks like? I imagine the final cost was pretty pricey, with the paint and things.
It really needs to have some way for air to get through or down it will blow!

 

[KLS52]

I bought a container fig tree!

 

[Tom L.]

@KLS52 Excellent! I've read that they're one of the few fruit trees that will set fruit indoors, but I might be wrong. It will probably need lots of light to do that.

 

[KLS52]

My tomato plants are loaded but I don’t think they will be making any new tomatoes…the flowers are blossoming but then drying up and dying. Either blossom drop or it’s a pollination issue according the CT Gardeners FB page. I tried hand pollinating…pretty easy to do. I watched a few YouTube videos… but it doesn’t seem to be helping.
I’ll be grateful for the tomatoes that are on there now, though.

 

[Tom L.]

@KLS52 Your plants still have a lot of tomatoes on them, and it's kind of early in the season. They'll probably start having more of them after these are picked (unless maybe you planted a "determinate" variety?...)

I didn't grow tomatoes this year, but I kind of wish I had; my okra isn't coming up very thickly (because the seed was a bit old, I think). I could still plant some romaine lettuce or the rest of my kale seed. though.

I planted mustard greens in an out-of-the-way corner last year. I thought I picked it all, but two small plants came up in the same place. I'm letting it go to seed so I'll have some to plant again.

 

[KLS52]

@tom These are two “container” varieties…one is early girl and I forget what the other is. It’s not something I’ve heard of before. I’ll have to go out and check the tag on it and see what kind it is.

 

[SuicideBlonde]

One of our banana tress is starting to flower. It has been a couple years.

 

[KLS52]

One of our banana tress is starting to flower. It has been a couple years.

Oh my gosh, that is so cool!

 

[Tom L.]

@SuicideBlonde Excellent! I love the way banana plants look, especially indoors. But you're lucky to live in an area warm enough to grow them outside. Did you get fruit the last time?

@KLS52 I don't know if you would want to bother with this, but sometimes you can take a cutting of a tomato plant, root and pot it, and keep it indoors over the winter, planting it outside when the weather warms up again. The leaves are somewhat poisonous; I don't know if your cats would try to munch on them. I also don't know if you can do this with one of the determinate varieties- but sometimes it's just fun to have a few extra plants in the house for the winter (so long as no bugs come in with them!).

 

[silva]

One of our banana tress is starting to flower. It has been a couple years.

so very cool!

 

[SuicideBlonde]

This is the third time that it's producing something I've only had fruit on it once before. I have hopes.

 

[Deleted member 3018]

I want this so bad…fence made from old doors…it’s gorgeous!!

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Wow, That's AMAZING! I freaking LOVE it.

 

[Deleted member 3018]

I got a new baby. Chili. I named it Courage. Our teacher at the Permaculture Design Course gave us all our own chili seedlings.


Jude is blooming.

And here are all of them enjoying the sun.

 

[KLS52]

@StrangeOtter will it grow chili peppers that you can eat? I’ve seen ornamental pepper plants and I think they look so cool!

 

[Deleted member 3018]

@StrangeOtter will it grow chili peppers that you can eat? I’ve seen ornamental pepper plants and I think they look so cool!

I think it'll grow edible chilis. But I'm not sure if it will be successful indoors and at an apartment. We'll see.

 

[KLS52]

How about “what’s not in your garden”…as in the deer ate all of the daisies, lol. Not that there were many. I just planted it a few days ago. It had four flowers and several buds. All gone now, lol. I thought of posting in the gripe thread except I don’t really care. I forgot to consider what deer like to eat when I purchased them. They have pretty much decimated the hostas that are in the back, too. But we have so many and they do come back every year.

 

[Deleted member 3018]

How about “what’s not in your garden”…as in the deer ate all of the daisies, lol. Not that there were many. I just planted it a few days ago. It had four flowers and several buds. All gone now, lol. I thought of posting in the gripe thread except I don’t really care. I forgot to consider what deer like to eat when I purchased them. They have pretty much decimated the hostas that are in the back, too. But we have so many and they do come back every year.

Sounds like you have unwanted pets.
Deer can be quite problematic, but I recon they are easier to get rid of than, lets say, snails... Put up a tall and sturdy fence and they're gone, right? But maybe it's nice to have them around.

 

[Blues]

One of our banana tress is starting to flower. It has been a couple years.

I have fried banana blossom SB ….rather nice