Update: Growing radishes indoors Update 8-5: trashed the radishes....got tired of the swarms of fungus gnats driving me crazy from the soil used when planting the radishes. Never had this many gnats before and will give up on indoor food growing until I get a good indoor organic fungus gnat control.
Food!
First of my yellow brandywines....first year growing these...great eating!
My attempt at bush beans growing in dollar store buckets. Harvested some off of them already, and they are still producing. Used a half and half combination of peat moss and compost as a soil medium. I continue to water them 2x a day and fertilize them with granular organic fertilizer, fish emulsion, compost tea alternately about every week or so. Cheap way to get some food!
Radishes just popped up overnight! Growing inside under lights this summer. First time doing this, updates will follow. Used an organic potting soil, misted with water and put on a sunny windowsill for a week or so.
Harvest this morning of wax bush beans and green bush beans from my garden bush bean fertilizer experiment. Results so far: the best fertilizer in terms of larger plants and larger yields of beans is the organic granular fertilizer. The added compost side of the garden came in second and last was the fish emulsion fertilizer. I found that the fish emulsion fertilizer plants were smaller and had fewer beans. Next year I will be using the organic granular fertilizer on my bean crop. The tomatoes here are Matina Tomatoes. First year growing these and they are a smaller tomato but still very good. Have still many left on the plants to ripen, so far the best yields of my tomato container plants.
My first crop of bush beans and my first tomato of the season. The tomato is a Matina Tomato and was small but tasty. The bush beans were delicious and were from different parts of my bush bean fertilizer garden experiment. There still are many bean harvests and various types of tomatoes to come. Stay tuned!
Container Garden in a "circle the wagons" attempt to keep out critters. Tried to keep all the chicken wire containers on the outside of the container garden to make a barrier of sorts to keep rabbits and skunks out. It will not keep the squirrels out, but you can only do so much. Hope it works.
Orange bell peppers that have made a come back after record cold one week and record heat the next.
Squash I will attempt to grow up a trellis
Carrots in a dollar store bucket...worked last year.
Different types of peppers growing in different types of containers.
A sunflower in a bucket.
Bush beans growing in a bucket of compost, peat moss and fertilized with fish emulsion and granular organic fertilizer.
Green Bell Peppers in a tote
Chocolate Mint, Mint, and Basil looking a little tired of all the rain we have been getting.
My Youtube video on early potato blight problem........
"Potatoes from a store" experiment. These are not seed potatoes, but wanted to try an experiment at growing some potatoes that had eyes on them from the cupboard. Looks like they might have early blight with small brown spots on some of the leaves. The leaves are not yellow or dry....so some information from the internet said that if this is early blight the potatoes should be able to fight it and be fine. We will see.
First year strawberries doing fine so far. Have had a few of them and they taste great if not sweet enough as store bought. I am told that you have to wait until the second year after planting to get the better crop.
