Over the past few years, I've tried growing some herbs and porch tomatoes in containers with varying degrees of success. Some critters ended up fancying my tomatoes, and my spearmint didn't survive past 1 or two harvests for my mint juleps. Fortunately, the other stuff seemed to do ok
This year I've managed to secure a plot at the neighborhood community garden. My plot is somewhere around 10' x 10', maybe a hair bigger. I've just planted a bunch of seeds in flats, and I'm now waiting for them to germinate. I'm worried that I may have purchased a bit too much, and I'm wondering what I should keep around the house in a container (or on the porch), and what I should transfer to the garden.
So far, I've got in soil:
sweet basil
italian parsley
thyme
sage
rosemary
chives
scallions
mesclun
Some other kind of lettuce (can't remember which kind. something smallish)
lavender
eggplant
spinach
watercress
spearmint
perhaps a couple more.. my mind is drawing a blank. I also plan on growing tomatoes, but I heard from several different people that they're hard to grow from seeds, so I figured I'd splurge on some nice sized plants in a month or so.
I was told by the woman who runs the garden, that anything "too exotic" will be filched by other garden members, so none of these herbs/veggies are especially heirloom, or anything like that.
Of course, there's no guarantee that these will all germinate..
Any advice is much appreciated. Also, if there's anything especially hearty that someone would like to recommend, I'm open to suggestions
--P
This year I've managed to secure a plot at the neighborhood community garden. My plot is somewhere around 10' x 10', maybe a hair bigger. I've just planted a bunch of seeds in flats, and I'm now waiting for them to germinate. I'm worried that I may have purchased a bit too much, and I'm wondering what I should keep around the house in a container (or on the porch), and what I should transfer to the garden.
So far, I've got in soil:
sweet basil
italian parsley
thyme
sage
rosemary
chives
scallions
mesclun
Some other kind of lettuce (can't remember which kind. something smallish)
lavender
eggplant
spinach
watercress
spearmint
perhaps a couple more.. my mind is drawing a blank. I also plan on growing tomatoes, but I heard from several different people that they're hard to grow from seeds, so I figured I'd splurge on some nice sized plants in a month or so.
I was told by the woman who runs the garden, that anything "too exotic" will be filched by other garden members, so none of these herbs/veggies are especially heirloom, or anything like that.
Of course, there's no guarantee that these will all germinate..
Any advice is much appreciated. Also, if there's anything especially hearty that someone would like to recommend, I'm open to suggestions
--P