Progression of the Garden

We no longer have to awkwardly store our plants indoors! The frosts have passed, everything has sprouted, so we have a very small amateur garden on our apartment balcony. We are in need of some more pots and potting soil, so this is not the finished look.

Variety of lettuces in the bigger pots. Sprouts for different herbs, wheat grass for cats, and catnip are sprouting in the Keirug coffee cups.

Tomatoes, strawberries, basil and other herbs, and some type of flowers given to me by a parent when I completed by Kindergarten student teaching.

Tomato plants (don't tell, but I actually do not care for tomatoes)

On the left: two Hibiscus plants from our wedding rehearsal dinner, about 11 months old. Unfortunately not in bloom at the moment.

Ian has also begun raising herbs in an aeroponic planter! Pics from that soon. 

Sprouts!

Not the eating kind- the beginnings of an awesome balcony garden.

Hubby/partner and I got excited at the end of a week of warm weather, in seventies, and began sprouting seeds and setting plants out on the balcony of our one bedroom apartment. Biiiig time fail. Then, we have had two continuous weeks of thirties and forties including snow. We pulled almost everything inside and saved most things.

Squeezing sprouts and plants on the stovetop, of course.

The problem is indoor space and sunlight. We keep everything in the bedroom while we are at work where they sort of get sunlight. When we are home and the sun is down, they are on the kitchen counters where the cats do not go.

Strawberries we bought as small plants. A little blossom!

I will do another post about our sprouting methods because we tried about five ways, some successful and some cumbersome.

Can't wait for summertime veggies and herbs and kitty treats!

 

Our garden at my parent's house in 2009 which was brutally eaten by deer