#container gardening
This is my first year growing ‘Baby Face’ sunflowers – they are amazing! They top out at just under two feet (about 60 cm) and have a ton of long-lasting blooms. I can’t help but smile every time I see them.
Do you have a favourite sunflower cultivar?
HAPPY SUNDAY! My gorgeous Othonna Capensis (ruby necklace) is starting to bloom! This succulent is marvelous. Why?
1) their color changes depending on the amount of light they get.
2) Super easy to propagate. Clip and stick in soil.
3) The flowers are super cute!
4) Super easy to care for.
Question? Ask them away!
Do you grow one? Share any tips
Avocado from seed update!
Lots of new growth after the rain. I’m keeping the soil moist to continue the growth. So far looking good!
I’ve grown this from seed for 3 years! I use a wet towel to cover the pit, then put it all in a Ziploc bag and keep it in a dry place.
Check on it once a week, this is a crucial step, so set up reminders on your phone! You should see roots after 4-8 weeks. Pot it in soil after the roots are about 3-4 inches long and strong.
Any questions, let me know!
Bird of Paradise From Seed Check ✅!!! THEY ARE GROWING!
This is so exciting, but from personal experience, it is still too soon to scream victory! Seedlings are especially sensitive to anything. Too much of this, too little of that, if you miss to check on them one day, then you might lose them.
I’m manually watering them and placing them outside during the day, for them to get full sun. Then taking them back in to protect them from the cold and outsiders
If you haven’t watched them, I posted about 3 videos of the process back in November if I remember right. It took about 8 weeks for them to sprout. This is week 10.
Happy New Plant Year!
May 2022 bring you so many pups, seeds to sprout, current babies to grow, flowers and hopefully bugs to stay the f*ck away!
I also hope this is a new year of learning and experimenting, my favorite part of loving plants. If you want to become a better plant parent, learn more about plant care and more, please feel free to DM me. I’m here to help!
My baby!! I’ve grown this one from seed, a 3.5 year journey so far. Can’t wait for her to keep growing!
Questions? Ask them away!!!
I never thought I could be in love with a place but I am in love with my garden.
I wanna do a beginner-gardening Q&A some time soon so post some questions and I will answer then!
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Warm Weather Fan™️
Always a sucker for flowers…
Growing beans, cucumbers and fruit all in 15 gallon containers.
Pepper and peach tree.
The little peach tree is so full of ripening peaches it is leaning over. It’s just a couple seasons since I grafted the rootstock.
The purple Peruvian pepper plant is on its third season and still profusely producing purple peppers.
Green beans from the garden. So tasty.
These also were grown in a container shared with a fruit tree.
First cucumbers! I grew these in a 15 gallon container shared with a peach tree.
Wet weather today. Plants are happy.
Planted tomatoes today. We are having unusually wet weather here in California in May, so I thought it might be good to take advantage of the ripe planting conditions and set these tomatoes out.
I planted them deep as I usually do with tomatoes. I squeezed one tomato in between two large artichokes. Time will tell if it has enough space and light.
Since I’m so limited in planting space, I expanded the bed. Two tomatoes have brand new soil to enjoy. The fourth tomato will grow out as a container plant. Let’s see which planting does the best. My money is on the container planted tomato!
We rent a converted garage behind this main house. We have 400 square feet, a small garden under a pear tree and a dozen or so potted up fruit trees. Love our little place, little garden and little trees.
Spring is here!
Pepper harvest. From about 4 plants growing in five gallon containers. Thai orange, purple Peruvian and buena malata.
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Happy with the grafting success this season: on the peach 3 out of 4 grafts took and on the apples even more success. One of this year’s apple grafts (Waltana) actually has fruit growing on it!
The last photo shows one of the apple trees coming into fruit for the first time (Pink Lady).
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Tiny patio garden.
Fruit trees are fruiting!
All these trees I’ve grafted or rooted myself, starting with bare rootstock or a cutting. Many of these trees I’ve put on multiple varieties. Some have more than half a dozen or more different varieties on one tree!
Since we don’t own land, we grow our trees in containers. They all started out in 1 gallon pots and now most are in 15 gallon containers. I don’t plan on potting up further but we are hopeful we will plant many of these trees in the ground when we buy a place soon.
We’ve got apple, Asian pear, plum, nectarine, peach, grapefruit, mandarin, pineapple guava, fig, pomegranate and more.
No fruit yet on the cherry or European Pear trees. Maybe next year!
Just some photos of the different areas and styles of my garden.
We have some beds where we are growing directly in the ground.
We have a lot of 15 gallon containers where fruit trees share the space with fava beans or other small vegetables.
And we have smaller 5 gallon containers where we are growing peppers, strawberries and snow peas.
Grapefruit. From a container tree.
