Vegetable Gardening

[Trek420]

Ok all you farmers. It's hardly a vegetable garden but .... I've found that chard, kale, leafy greens will survive and thrive in planters in my dark, sunless patio.

[OakLeaf]

Yum, kale!

The leaves on my red Russian kale keep getting bigger, but they're still tender and delicious. The one plant that overwintered from last year, and didn't bolt, the leaves are nearly two feet across, and still so tender.

Hope it does as well in containers as it's doing in my garden!

[Trek420]

I have very little sun. You see the patio door in the background? On the other side is another group of condos, neighbors walls to either side. So there's sun from maybe oh 10am-2pm

Remembering that greens could bolt with a lot of sun I picked up some starts at a local farm market and whadya know. They are surviving if not thriving.

[spokewench]

Here's my harvest from last night. Eggplant, bell peppers, cucumbers, zucchini,tomatoes. Can't wait for that Eggplant parmesan this weekend! It is getting cold at night; have to really watch the garden from now on. I will try to get all the green tomatoes off before it freezes!

[deeaimond]

I don't have any edible vegetables but I have a monster tomato plant that just started growing out of one of my pots. It has now completely overtaken the original pot owner, this Jasmine plant...

I mixed some worm castings into the soil... I think that is the big factor, coz before i did that it was growing pretty slowly. It grew all the bits above the metal stick's hook in just one week.

Also featured are some ginger and tumeric plants i have just potted about 2 weeks ago. seem to have taken root pretty well. turmeric is top right of the aloe and sole ginger shoot is bottom right.

anyone got ideas whats the next step to this tomato plant. does anyone have an idea if it will bear fruit? i mean, do i need to have two plants for pollination or something?

[OakLeaf]

Tomatoes are self-pollinating. You're good with one plant. Might want to stake or cage it though, because it'll start falling over when the fruit gets heavy.

I had no idea you could grow ginger in pots! How cool is that.

I made five more pints of tomato sauce last night. How is it that all those tomatoes cook down into such a tiny amount of sauce??

[NoNo]

I spent all day yesterday cooking down 25lbs of tomatoes into 8 quarts of sauce. Almost doesn't seem worth the effort, but I'm sure I'll feel otherwise some winter night when I'm exhausted and don't want to cook. Also picked a boatload of massive stringbeans from the garden. The further they're getting from the ground, the larger they're getting. Broccoli is making a tiny comeback, eggplant is just about done, tomatoes are definitely done, still a few zucchini here and there, and the peppers are going strong. Oh, and the blueberry bush is still flourishing