kathy

we have an indoor garden, it's 14X24, the beds are waist high. it was finished a bit late for this spring but we do have a nice bed of tomatoes and when fall gets here we'll plant lots of fall veggies. before we had bugs, cows, dogs and birds that got 90% of what we planted, now they get to eat or destroy any of it! I have a wonderful hard working husband.

stitchinwitch

It is so refreshing to hear your opinions, and that at least a few of us are thinking along the same lines! yes! wOODY - HAVING fresh FARM EGGS IS WONDERFUL! The free range have darker yokes and taste sooo good! The ones from the store look anemic! No flavor!
Ha Pam who DOES like weeding?? This year the weather has been NOT condusive for planting here - we just have potatoes, tomatoes and peppers growing. Why do weeds flourish and veggies look stunted??
cjmomma - I KNOW you MUST have had a garden where you moved FROM! and Carrie - good suggestion - POT PLANT! (that is IN pots)........
Kathy - INDOOR garden - where indoors do you have it?

cjomomma

Unfortunalely our apt manager frowns on such things. We have a big enough back porch but they tell us no. You would think they would encourage low income families to do this inorder to save money. I just don't get it.

pojo

I have my tomatoes, green peppers, yellow beans, corn and onions in big pots. you can even grow them in hanging baskets too.

my potatoes are in a huge pot.

Rosyhf

I go to the farmers market or my SIL does and we pick up fresh from these farmers. Tomatoes are delicious....

thismomquilts

We have an aquaponics system in our backyard - well, side yard... fish in tanks, use the water to hydroponically grow veggies. The difference in taste of store bought and home grown is so outrageously different... I find it hard to buy ANY vegetables in the store now - though we don't grow all. One day we will. I'm waiting to put in a soil garden - in time... we do have a small one - but I want a HUGE one... always had them as I was growing up.

Pam

thismomquilts, could you share more info about your aquaponics? This is something I could really be interested in! Do you harvest your fish as well? Please share.

lab fairy

cjomamma, you can't tell him you are beautifying the patio? (Decorate your pots so they don't look so bad. My daughter loved to paint clay pots with decorations. PM me if you don't know how.) We plant herbs in our flowerbeds by the front door and they look a whole lot nicer than some of the scraggly flowers a few of my neighbors are trying. We also grow some things in nicer pots out front. Our neighbors are always talking about how nice the flower Beds look. I always want to laugh because the only reason some of the flowers are planted around the edges are because they are "deer resistant" (hah!, suckers will eat anything that doesn't get them first). Oh yeah, and the swallowtail butterflies are using the parsley and dill to lay eggs. The caterpillers are pigs, but the trade off is great (encouraging pollinators into the garden).

You could try small, grow some herbs in your windowsill and go from there. You might look to see if there is a community garden project in your neighborhood. If there's not, maybe go to the city council and recommend they start one. Everyone benefits with things like this. We can never use all that we grow and tell neighbors to come harvest what they need of the herbs. Maybe your apt. manager hasn't been shown pictures of really gorgeous landscaping that is edible. He might be willing to let you try it somewhere obscure if you promise to tend to it. There is a program in Austin that started doing that with a grant (I think. PM me if you are interested and I'll try to find the information and send it to you. I know there used to be grants available to communities who start community gardens and have ideas and programs already put together to make it as easy as possible for people to start. All it takes to grow something useful is a 6 inch pot and a window. Oh, yeah, and my husband. I have the botanical know-how but a black thumb. I swear he can grow something from planting a broom handle in the ground.) Hope this gives you some ideas. Everyone should be able to garden if they want to.

lab fairy

Wow, I want to try the aquaponics thing. It sounds interesting. We're using a modified square foot garden model at the moment. I wonder what my Mom would say if I told her I had aquariums. She thought our solar dryer was something expensive until she realized it was a clothesline. I got a good laugh over that one because I had a solar dryer in college and she thought I had gotten something really high tech.

Pam

I was using the solar clothes drier earlier today, does not work so great in the rain, so in they came.