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[maillotpois]

Bless you, Maillotpois! Have a delightfully terrible dessert for me, too.

Thanks! It was a fun 400k, but I skipped dessert. And had 2 helpings of chili instead.

[Xrayted]

Kit installed a vertical veggie/herb garden on our apartment balcony today. It's very interesting. She used a shoe rack, a spare bike rack, some PVC pipe and a few U bolts. Then she made an upside down tomato hanger out of a used 2 liter bottle of pop, some duct tape and a spare piece of rope. Here it is...



Kale, spinach, mixed salad greens, herbs... You can see we didn't use one of the spots. They didn't sew that one correctly. It's open on the bottom. We start watering on the top and work out way down the wall. Because it's the cloth kind it breathes, the excess trickles down and eventually ends up in the overflow tray, which will be recycled back to the top at the next watering. She used those gel crystals mixed with compost/planting mix to help keep the moisture in the soil.

We now have room in the longer floor planters for our beans, carrots and other things that need deeper or more vertical climbing space. That comes next. We're just waiting on the seedlings to get big enough to transplant.

[snapdragen]

X - tell Kit -- that is so darn clever!

I attacked a horribly overgrown meyer lemon tree today, the majority of the lemons were no good, I saved a few. I didn't realize Dad usually went out and thinned the blossoms each year. This year without him doing it, they were growing like clumps of grapes. Not enough air flow = rotten lemons. Those beasts have thorns too, I'm all scratched up.

[Trek420]

she made an upside down tomato hanger out of a used 2 liter bottle of pop, some duct tape and a spare piece of rope.

At first I thought "looks like the plants are on an IV drip". Cool, ingenious.

[maillotpois]

Wow - that whole set up is amazingly innovative! Way to rock the patio garden!

[Kitsune06]

Thanks!

Not shown is the rest of the balcony with a big, bushy catnip plant (great for tea to help one sleep... oh and the kitties) spearmint, lavendar and rosemary. The beans, carrots and fennel are going in later after they've gotten big enough. We're figuring the beans will make a nice, green privacy 'fence' on the balcony rail.

[Crankin]

I hear musket volleys outside...

[crazycanuck]

Urm crankin, why do you hear musket volleys outside? What anniversary is it today..?

I know there was a 150th anniversary up in the US last week...

[Pax]

Thanks!

Not shown is the rest of the balcony with a big, bushy catnip plant (great for tea to help one sleep... oh and the kitties) spearmint, lavendar and rosemary. The beans, carrots and fennel are going in later after they've gotten big enough. We're figuring the beans will make a nice, green privacy 'fence' on the balcony rail.

That is so creative!! And here I have a whole yard to play in and I completely ignore it!