Before & After Photos Documenting Progress, Successes, and Failures
It’s my 7th year at container gardening and as each year passed, I noticed my crops were getting pail, smaller, weaker, and low yielding. I kept feeding my containers, worm castings, blood meal, and fish liquid for nitrogen boost. Bone meal for phosphorous boost, and potassium, yet my crops were pale and lacking vigor. I […]
I thought that by planting this petunia last year, it would die the next. I learned that even though they are annuals, they self-seed, so they grow back.
Visiting the garden center, I asked an associate what he was doing. He showed me some rosemary cuttings and offered to give me some to take home and propagate them. I did not know what that was. After a brief lesson, I went home, put them in water until the cuttings grew roots. After reading
It’s spring and each year I reset root-bound mint by taking the best cuttings with a strong root and replant each of them.-about 5 – 7 depending on container size. Sometimes the cuttings won’t take, so I’ll put an extra one. Containers are first washed with soap, and I reuse the soil by sifting it
