Successful Lessons from my Zone-10b Roof-top Container Garden
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 […]
This is my second large container and again I tested to see if mixing different crops in one container would work. It did! In this big Bertha, I mixed Arugula (a green leaf crop), carrots and onions (root crops) and the soil has drastically improved and produced lush greens and veggies. The netting on the
Earlier this year, I noticed my potato plants were growing dark spots on the leaves. After some research, the number one recommendation was to reuse a soil with a different crop rotation. Since potatoes are root crops, I should have used soil that had previously grew fruits or greens. Using the same type of crop
Finally I was able to harvest a successful batch of potatoes. I’ve tried multiple times in the past few years and couldn’t due to rodents destroying my early crops. On March 17, 2024 I planted Austrian Crescent Tuber potatoes as a new variety, and the purple ones I think I planted those in the fall
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
