verthandei

verthandei's Balcony garden

Garden Type: Balcony | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Potting Mix I'm Organic!

  • 28 Aug 2009
    Bizaro World 1 3 Happy Balcony garden and Cucumber 'Chinese Yellow'
    Question: How do you know when your Chinese yellow cucumber is ripe? Answer: When it starts to turn yellow? Seriously. Up until a few days ago this was a uniform, somewhat pale green.
    Sunny 21°C / 70°F
  • 26 Aug 2009
    Journal Woes 1 5 Neutral Balcony garden , The Worm Hotel garden , Strawberry Blooming, Strawberry 'Quinalt' Blooming, Strawberry 'Ch...
    Wow, I’ve positively failed at keeping up with my journal. Lots of things have died. Other things have fruited (sort of). I’ll try harder. This summer, though splendid on the anti-heatwave front, has been dismal for most of the balcony dwellers. No summer squash. One sad cucumber. (A...
    Sunny 21°C / 70°F
  • 21 Jul 2009
    Here There Be Giants 3 3 Happy Balcony garden , Blueberry 'Sunshine Blue' Harvesting, Tomatillo 'Verde' Flowering, and Tomatillo 'Purple' ...
    Among the many things that have been happening these past few weeks is the blooming of the amazing purple salvia (I think it’s a salvia) that I bought from Orchard a few months ago but apparently never entered into my database. I think I have the plant tag somewhere still (I hope so). Never...
    14°C / 57°F
  • 06 Jun 2009
    Updates Galore - But No Photos 3 2 Balcony garden , Covert garden , Rudbeckia Potting Up, Shasta Daisy Potting Up, Salmon Yarrow Potting Up, L...
    Wow, has it really been two weeks? Last weekend I potted up a bunch of the baby plants in the stage 1 baby plant nursery to the stage 2 juvenile plant nursery (aka a plastic tub that’s not big enough to hold all the pots). Some of the Dixie cup pots the baby plants were in were slimy –...
    Sunny 15°C / 59°F
  • 19 May 2009
    Sprouts... Balcony garden , Covert garden , Stevia Sprouting, and Perennial Black Eyed-Susan Sprouting
    …are sprouting.
    Sunny 12°C / 54°F
  • 18 May 2009
    Quickly, Before I Pass Out 4 Balcony garden , Catnip Sprouting, Lemon Gem Marigold Sprouting, Basil 'Thai Sweet' Sprouting, and Basil 'A...
    So tired, so this has to be a quickie: A few more of the seeds have sprouted in their seedling pots: Thai Sweet Basil Aromatto Basil Catnip Lemon Gem Marigold (although it’s looking sad) A few seedlings are going crazy and need to be potted up in larger (temporary) pots: Tomatillo Verde es...
    Cloudy 13°C / 55°F
  • 17 May 2009
    Whoops... 1 Balcony garden and Dill 'Fernleaf' Sprouting
    …forgot about this one!
    Sunny 12°C / 54°F

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