It is so difficult for me to get down on the ground and crawl around, weeding and planting....so I put all my veggies in pots....BIG containers.....but when I see your success with your "Victory Garden" beds, my container garden is woefully inadequate and pathetic. Maybe I have my soil mixture in those pots all wrong....I was not even successful growing cucumbers last year.....they all got about 1-2 inches long, then yellowed and died on the vine. I had an enormous container......36 inches high, 40 inches in diameter....I planted a "Salad Bowl" in there....mixture of greens, 3 different types of lettuce, some green onion, etc......when SOMETHING finally came up in that pot, I was thinking it was a variety of lettuce......it was weeds....and I was about to serve those weeds to my family calling it salad! My tomatoes...Big Boy, which are supposed to be large, MAY develop to the size of tennis balls.....of course they are cracked and have a wide grey or crapey line that goes around the tomatoe....
I dont give up easily though! I ordered a new seed last year for a bush egg plant....specifically for containers....got to remember where I put those seeds....got some okra that grows on a bush only getting 3 feet high....and got some "fail proof" cucumbers.....we will see how these things come out.....I will just come in here and pull up YOUR pics of your "victory gardens" and get all enthused and excited again! |