4 2009-11-03T17:18:05-08:00 false couldn't stand it. I had to plant some more food. planted a one-gallon pot full of generally unhappy sea kale in the ground, where it should enjoy itself much more. then I pulled out the incredibly root-bound contents of a long-ish container that had been hanging on the railing: four lablabs, one musk mallow, several maypops, and one manzano pepper. it was emotionally difficult, but I used a very nice spade I found under our apartment to chop the block of root between each plant to separate them. stuffed the maypops and pepper into their own one-gallon pots, discarded the lablabs, and put the musk mallow in the ground near the sea kale. the sea kale clearly wanted deeper soil than it had in the pot, should be much happier now. the musk mallow just never took off. never even got past the basal rosette stage, forget about making any flowers or leaves to eat. I hope that will change next year in the new spot. I enjoyed the lablabs this year. they looked great, grew well, and provided a little bit of pretty good food. if they had had a little more space for the roots to spread out, I'm sure they would have provided a lot of food. next year I'll plant a lot more of these using the seed I collected this year and hopefully there will be a significantly more substantial harvest. I had to cut quite a bit of root off the maypops and manzano pepper, so I'm a little worried about them. they both need bigger pots than I've got available just now. the long container I had these all in was just too shallow for these plants. I'll need to put something with shallower roots in it next year. being relatively new to container gardening, I just didn't consider depth. and I took all these pictures at night because, naturally, I was gardening in the dark. it's sort of a secret, this garden. 1 false 70482 false false false Entry 2009-11-03T00:00:00-08:00 DMY 86337 Public 2009-11-03T17:18:11-08:00 3098 Overcast 52 F