DirtGently
Member since: Sep 10 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 0 | Organic gardener
A black thumb trying to turn green by reviving an-ex roommate’s southwest facing balcony garden.
I started gardening “seriously” this summer out of boredom. During that time, I managed to kill a miniature rose bush, several coriander plants, a number of bean bushes, a begonia, some Hungarian chili peppers, and innumerable other victims, mostly (I think) due to overwatering and underfeeding.
I had a beefsteak tomato plant, which yielded a pretty meager harvest before giving up the ghost.
Undaunted, I’ve gone ahead and ordered a metric ass-ton of fall and spring bulbs and built a couple of cedar planters for them on my balcony garden.
Follow my botanical (horticultural?) adventures here and on Twitter (DirtGently)
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Zone 5a I have a huge back balcony (gallery) that I share with neighbours, their dog, and some squirrels. Perfect for container gardening, right? Except it...
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Zone 5a A nice planter built by hand by a long-ago roommate out of untreated pine, sitting against a brick wall on the front balcony, hosting annuals. Some...
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Zone 5a This is a cedar planter that I built, 36″×12″×12″, intended mainly for bulbs, on the front balcony.
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Zone 5a A cedar planter, built mostly from the scraps left over from building planter #1 and other projects. Intended primarily for bulbs. On the front bal...
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Germination and Propagation Station garden
Zone 5a What’s your function conjunction junction? 4 T8 light fixtures. Each fixture has 1x Philips Daylight Deluxe (6500K, color rendering index 82,...
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Zone 5a Pretty much anything on the front balcony that’s not in the cedar or pine planters goes here.
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