Getting Ready For Another Season of Patio Gardening
After last summer, I was really burnt out on our garden. It wasn’t quite as fruitful as I wanted it to be and kind of ended in a fizzle. After a long winter, I’m excited for things to warm up and to start growing again.
This weekend we purchased all of our seeds, and even planted our first plants of the season. I think the plan is to start the seeds next weekend (depending on whether or not it decides to snow this weekend). We’re trying a lot of new plants this year, along with tried and true herbs and veggies from last year. I’m super excited to see what will happen.
For now I’ll leave you with our teaser for the next season and hopefully next week there will be videos and pictures to share of our first week.
Blizzard 2011 in Chicago
We’re in the midst of the great blizzard of 2011 here in Chicago now I get to work from home today, which is good because there are snow drifts out in the street close to 4 feet and the snow is still falling.
We made a short little video of what our patio garden looks like under all this snow.
Check it out:
Patio Gardening 2010: Week 29 – End of Season
It looks like it’s finally over for our little patio garden. Last week we hit lows in the 30s and our poor plants started shriveling up a little.
The day before the big temperature drop, I went ahead and harvested all the peppers and tomatoes left on the plants. The last haul was 2 peppers and about 40 green tomatoes of various sizes. Hopefully they’ll slowly ripen indoors.
I’m letting the peppers and tomatoes do their thing a little longer. They keep trying to flower and I’m curious to see what may happen, but I don’t really expect anything. It’s cold out there.
I moved the basil inside even though it’s not looking so hot. I think the plan is eventually we’ll harvest all the basil, make a ton of pesto and freeze it. Then in the spring we’ll start fresh again.
I took the peppers from the garden and the ones left over from our CSA basket and chopped them up and froze them as Sylvia suggested. Now the boyfriend will have lots of peppers to last him through the winter.
For those who are new, this year the boyfriend and I are doing a little container gardening experiment where we are trying to grow various herbs and vegetables on our patio. We live in the city of Chicago, so traditional gardening is out of the question. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to instantly receive the posts each week and also check out our previous posts. Feel free to subscribe to our Youtube channel as well.
Patio Gardening 2010: Week 26 – Surprise Green Onions
Fall is here but the garden is still going. It looks rough, but it’s going.
We’ve had roller coaster temperatures for the past few weeks, with temperatures in the 60s and then the 70s and the past few days in the 80s.
I’ve basically just let the garden do it’s own thing for awhile now. The tomato and pepper plants look like a hot mess still, but they’re all flowering and producing.
Some of the peppers are even turning red. It will be time to harvest them soon.
The big surprise this week is that the green onions are still growing. We had a few that browned and died before we could pick them, and now they’re growing again, so I guess we’ll get a small round of resurrected green onions before the season is over.
The basil is still a powerhouse that we plan to keep growing until first frost, at which point we’ll harvest it all, make a ton of pesto and freeze it for the winter. Who knows when that will happen, though the temperatures will be back into the 50s and 60s this week.
Still no video. I tried to get the boyfriend to do one this week, but he was working all weekend.
For those who are new, this year the boyfriend and I are doing a little container gardening experiment where we are trying to grow various herbs and vegetables on our patio. We live in the city of Chicago, so traditional gardening is out of the question. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to instantly receive the posts each week and also check out our previous posts. Feel free to subscribe to our Youtube channel as well.
Patio Garden 2010 Week 23: Tomatoes, Peppers, & Basil
I know, I know. I haven’t done a patio garden update in a couple weeks. Honestly there just hasn’t been much going on to report.
We’re down now to tomatoes, peppers, and basil. The tomatoes and peppers are still suffering from the red spider mites, but the plants are still trucking along. They’re producing, flowering, and growing new leaves.
The tomatoes have been hit the hardest by the little mites. I picked 33 cherry tomatoes yesterday. The plants would probably be producing a lot more if they weren’t infested, but still this is not bad at all.
Our peppers still haven’t gotten big enough to pick, but they’re still growing. I have no clue what we’ll do with them once we have them. I’ll figure out something…
And the basil just goes on and on and on.
I don’t know if I’ll do updates every week now, since there isn’t much to report. I will do these posts periodically. No video this week. Maybe this weekend we’ll get one up. I can’t make any promises since I’m not really the one who is in charge of all that.
For those who are new, this year the boyfriend and I are doing a little container gardening experiment where we are trying to grow various herbs and vegetables on our patio. We live in the city of Chicago, so traditional gardening is out of the question. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to instantly receive the posts each week and also check out our previous posts. Feel free to subscribe to our Youtube channel as well.
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