Gardening for Cave Dwellers - Part II
I love to garden, and until recently was trapped in a townhouse with nothing more than a patio [lanai in Hawaii] and a 10x15 patch of grass.
My adventures in patio gardening started a this spring, with Gardening for Cave Dwellers: Part 1 -- potatoes in a barrel.
At the same time I planted my potatoes, I planted organic tomato seeds. These finally grew into seedling big enough to transplant into my "upside down" system.
The "hanging" planter I am using is ready made, but there are creative ways to devise your own. Here at Seeds of Knowledge they show you how to construct a hanging planter from a plastic bucket.
1. [...]drilling a 2-3 inch hole in the bottom of the bucket.
2. thread the leaves and stems down through the hole so that it hangs out of the bottom of the bucket
3. pack the material [sphagnum moss, newspaper, coffee filters, etc.] around the stem so that the plant is anchored and will not slip through the hole
4. add the soil into the bucket
5. hang it
So far, I am less than impressed with the upside down system. Several of my seedlings were transplanted into large pots [for later relocation to my new garden spot]. These plants are at least four times larger than the poor specimen in the upside down planter.
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I learnt that the Wild life fund certifies gardens which have gone back to nature. When I learnt that I stopped and let our step mum take her course. Now there's trees, and lots of birds, and a lot less to mow, and two families of deer using the spring at the bottom of the half acre, and rabbits. And when I made lunch today a baby black snake had wound itself round the tree outside the kitchen window and was just waiting, for what, what do I know about black snakes? And when I looked out the upstairs window there was this huge groundhog trundling along. I opened the window to tell it to keep away from the road, but it disappeared at the noise. And through all this activity the dog barks at the school bus and UPS. Idyllic, not exactly.
Hmmmmmmmmm
I have to admit that I have never heard of growing tomatoes....in the language of TX...a$$ backwards!!!!!!
But on the flip side, hanging the bucket from trees might
keep the fire ants away.... Good Luck!