Any patio gardeners at SF?

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Fantastic garden this year! String beans, eggplant, strawberries, red chilli Peppers and an herb garden with basil three feet tall.

Learned alot this year about squirrels. They hate tomatoes and absolutely love eggplant and peppers.
 
Haven't got a patio any more -- I've moved from a suburban house with gardens to a first-floor apartment in city centre (things you do for salsa... :roll:) so only have a few house plants now. I got some lovely pot plants as house warming gifts :).
I'm planning to get a small indoor herb garden going later this summer.
 
Hi Mac! :D Yeah, if the situation changes, I'd give up my garden for Salsa as well. :) The good thing about an herb garden is as long as you have a window, it will grow. :D
 
peachexploration said:
PR, are orchids as difficult to grow as some say?
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No, but I have killed some anyway, before I knew how to take care of them... :oops: I also think some of them were not grown in the right way where I bought them. Be shure to check that the roots aren't rotten before you buy one for yourself 8). I think the most common mistake is to give them water too often. (About every tenth day is enough.) Too much water only causes the roots to rotten. Also don't place them in direct sunlight...

I think some orchids is difficult to grow, but many hybrids are easy to grow. For examle Phalaenopsis is a very common orchid that is easy to grow. :P
 
Good luck Peach! :D

By the way... the reason for not giving water too often is that the plant need to dry out in beetween. (Atleast true for Phalaenopsis. A Phalaenopsis can actually be without water for weeks when you are on a vacation.) Also make shure no water stay in the "bladrosett" or in the "ytterkruka". (I don't know the English word for it... :() The "bladrosett" is where the new leaf is coming. Maybe "ytterkruka" can me translated to the outer pot?

Yay for post #18000! :bouncy:
 
Cool. Thanks again, PR. :D

Just finished pruning or more like slashing the string beans from my garden. They had gotten so big that they were choking my okra and tomatoe plants. :shock: :? That sound like a cartoon movie: Will Sargeant String Bean conquer Billy Okra? Will Eddie Eggplant ever recover from Jeffrey Squirrel or will the Red Hot Chilli Peppers regain the heat? Tune in tomorrow for: The Vegetable Garden at High Noon! :lol: :P
 
peachexploration said:
Cool. Thanks again, PR. :D

Just finished pruning or more like slashing the string beans from my garden. They had gotten so big that they were choking my okra and tomatoe plants. :shock: :? That sound like a cartoon movie: Will Sargeant String Bean conquer Billy Okra? Will Eddie Eggplant ever recover from Jeffrey Squirrel or will the Red Hot Chilli Peppers regain the heat? Tune in tomorrow for: The Vegetable Garden at High Noon! :lol: :P
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I gotta see that movie! :P :lol: ;)
 
Yes! Yes! Yes! Finally, I found out the problem! It was a family of mice! Yes, about 10 of them living in the back yard. To top it off, the family behind the fence NEVER cleans their yard, hence the mice!!!! :headwall: Anyways, some pretty good mice poisoning has done the trick! :rocker:

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PS: I hate mice! :x :evil: :twisted:
 
Yup! I used like these blocks of green cheese. The garden sits off the ground in a box sort of with fencing around it. Those little D%&^& even ate through the fencing!! Anyways, we just put the little unassuming blocks of cheese around it and they took it back to their little homes. You could see them get real happy! Dancing in the afternoon sunset singing "Cheese! Cheese! I love Cheese! Can't go far from my every loving Cheese!" They put on a nice off off Broadway show. Haven't seen them since.
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Moral to the story? "Don't mess with Peach and her vegetables!" :twisted: Muwahahahaha!!! :twisted:
 
:lol: Too funny!!!

We live in a '60s apartment with a very sunny (but small) balcony.

I've created a herb garden with those window box type pots (hang them off the balustrate) & they are doing pretty well 8) .

Apart from basil, everything else seem to be healthy..... we got rosemary, parsley, mint, tarragon, fennel, dill, rocket, water cress, oregano & thyme.

I'm planning to add some chilli & a giant bird-of-paradise (which looks like a banana tree) in the near future.

First we gotta figure out where the split system outlet goes :? ........
 
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