A really small vegetable garden, and indoors under shop lights, to boot!
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I set up 2 wire shelves with a total of 5 shop lights over them in my office. Today I saw the very first bush bean plants growing beans. They are growing in 1 lb. cottage cheese containers filled with a potting mix. These containers are about 4 inches deep, versus I read that bush beans need containers at least 6 inches deep.
I’m excited to see these green beans growing! I have some Sugar Snap Peas growing also. Hope they bear too!
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Here is a photo of some of the Sugar Snap Pea plants that I mentioned. I also have some other peas that are further along.
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Here are the Sugar Lace II pea plants.
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My two shelves are full. It’s gratifying to have such nice large green vegetables growing inside and to have a few edible vegetables of several different varieties from them already.
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My two lighted shelves were full of Beans, Peas, Tomatoes, and a Zucchini. I was harvesting beans, and looked forward to harvesting peas. The little Zucchini plant bloomed profusely, but all the flowers were Male! Then Spider Mites attacked and basically killed it all. I now have 7 Tomato plants and 4 bean plants on one shelf, with the other shelf dark at the moment. The Tomatoes seem less susceptible to spider mites, so I’m concentrating on them, with a bean pot there to see how it goes. I’m also spraying with some Parmethrin insecticide and misting frequently with plain water to keep the humidity up. We’ll see how it goes as the fall and winter progress.
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Hope you get something to harvest from them after all your efforts!
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Hi there! You're reading a conversation in the Small gardens group on Folia.
This group is for those of us who don’t have much in the way of real estate to grow things in. What I mean by a small garden is one where lack of space is a real problem. This can include container gardens, balcony gardens, and gardens that are just not very big, let’s say no bigger than 16 square meters max.
I know that in itself encompasses an awful lot of disparate situations, but I like the idea that someone can garden anywhere if the mood takes them. Apropos of that, the variation in small gardens is also enormous. So let this group celebrate all that, as well as deal with the problems and niggles encountered when trying to make something bigger on the inside than it is on the outside :-)
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