Comments on: How does the garden grow? https://habitablezone.com/2021/08/03/how-does-the-garden-grow/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:38:00 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2021/08/03/how-does-the-garden-grow/#comment-47114 RL Fri, 17 Sep 2021 22:52:40 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=88565#comment-47114 That's just depressing... That’s just depressing…

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2021/08/03/how-does-the-garden-grow/#comment-47106 ER Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:13:00 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=88565#comment-47106 Hey, doesn't wine come in cardboard boxes> Hey, doesn’t wine come in cardboard boxes>

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2021/08/03/how-does-the-garden-grow/#comment-47063 RL Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:10:43 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=88565#comment-47063 We have a Sakura cherry tomato plant that comes up to our second floor window now, and that is after making a few S curves along the way... straightened out it might easily reach the roof... we have to use our 8' ladder to reach some of it. Harvested 5-10 lbs of produce just today... MUCH more on the vine And suddenly the Bees have noticed our garden, so there is steady stream of pollinators.... so now we are getting flooded with beans...Just started peas -sugarsnap and snow peas. The plants may end up killing us...... We have a Sakura cherry tomato plant that comes up to our second floor window now, and that is after making a few S curves along the way… straightened out it might easily reach the roof… we have to use our 8′ ladder to reach some of it.

Harvested 5-10 lbs of produce just today… MUCH more on the vine

And suddenly the Bees have noticed our garden, so there is steady stream of pollinators…. so now we are getting flooded with beans…Just started peas -sugarsnap and snow peas.

The plants may end up killing us……

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2021/08/03/how-does-the-garden-grow/#comment-47026 RL Sun, 08 Aug 2021 23:18:15 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=88565#comment-47026 Sadly, I doubt grapes would do well in containers Sadly, I doubt grapes would do well in containers

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2021/08/03/how-does-the-garden-grow/#comment-47022 podrock Sat, 07 Aug 2021 04:32:22 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=88565#comment-47022 Grapes soon. Grapes soon.

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2021/08/03/how-does-the-garden-grow/#comment-47018 RL Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:44:52 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=88565#comment-47018 Last year our harvest was meager... sooo, we planted a LOT more... 20+ tomato plants, cucumber, zucchini, beans, bell peppers, habanada peppers, korean peppers, melons, greens, celery, beets, carrots potatoes, sweet potatoes... and more I am forgetting... A few weeks into our gardening this season I realized the water was alkaline and stunting our plants- likely the reason for the pitiful harvest last year... so I balanced the ph... the results were... overwhelming... EVERYTHING is flourishing and producing copious amounts, more than we can keep up with... these pictures are after going through and harvesting a lot... we have picked a LOT the past few weeks... <blockquote><a href="//imgur.com/a/qilNbSn" rel="nofollow">Garden</a></blockquote> Main Garden: <img src="https://i.imgur.com/63t0Lck.jpg" alt="" width="800"/> Mostly peppers on the deck. one lettuce taller than I am in the middle (we are saving the seeds from THAT freakish mutant): <img src="https://i.imgur.com/xuOPBpN.jpg" alt="" width="800" /> LOTS of peppers <img src="https://i.imgur.com/Mgyw691.jpg" alt="" width="800"/> Brown cherry tomato: <img src="https://i.imgur.com/wmFyN0C.jpg" alt="" width="800"/> 30-gallon bag of sweet potatoes, come carrots and beets on the left: <img src="https://i.imgur.com/f9TBl8m.jpg" alt="" width="800"/> Last year our harvest was meager… sooo, we planted a LOT more… 20+ tomato plants, cucumber, zucchini, beans, bell peppers, habanada peppers, korean peppers, melons, greens, celery, beets, carrots potatoes, sweet potatoes… and more I am forgetting…

A few weeks into our gardening this season I realized the water was alkaline and stunting our plants- likely the reason for the pitiful harvest last year… so I balanced the ph… the results were… overwhelming… EVERYTHING is flourishing and producing copious amounts, more than we can keep up with… these pictures are after going through and harvesting a lot… we have picked a LOT the past few weeks…

Garden

Main Garden:

Mostly peppers on the deck. one lettuce taller than I am in the middle (we are saving the seeds from THAT freakish mutant):


LOTS of peppers

Brown cherry tomato:

30-gallon bag of sweet potatoes, come carrots and beets on the left:

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