container gardening - 2015

Hello everyone!

It´s the time of the year that my top terrace turns into a sea of greens... 

It´s where I have my container plants, mostly 

vegetables. I love to garden here and it´s 

a safe area, free from slugs!

Now that it´s very hot in our city, my container veggies are all thriving vigorously.

I planted three dozens of salad greens and they 

are now ready for harvesting anytime... 

Year after year,  I grow them in cracker containers 

and they seem to love this 

kind of  culture in pots.

For the first time, I´m growing Hokkaido squash,  these small ones are 

very aromatic and sweet in taste.. Two seasons ago, 

I grew a real big squash that weighed almost 10 kilos

 as you can see  in the pic below... 

You can see how it developed  into a 10 kilo 

squash here.

And so, I´m just in the beginning of the Hokkaido squash growing 

which I hope would yield plenty of squash to harvest..

I sowed around a dozen green beans and this is also a first time for me. 
They are just so easy to grow!

Zucchini is also in the program this season and I´m enjoying to see the first fruit.

The raspberry bush was planted last summer and true to what the gardener 

at the garden center said that it will start bearing 

fruits one year after...

My strawberries come and go... it´s this particular worm that eats-up the 

shoot of the mother plant... and I´m glad that this time, 

the shoots survived from last year and even developed newbies...

As I have 3 dozens of empty cracker containers, I planted each with one salad green 
and the result is just good enough for one salad head..

I grow parsley from seeds and it´s always fun to see them becoming bigger especially 
when new life emerges out of the seeds sown til they show the first leaf. 

Bell peppers are the most robust container vegetable I´ve ever known. You plant it in a pot... 
....water  everyday and feed once in a while and it will 
yield many fruits. 

Have been growing cukes and they are among the robust plants here.

My container Lilies are on its 4th year now, still the same bulbs and need  

almost no maintenance

5 newbies of the amazing spanish amaryllis

Coctail tomatoes 

Onions

Raspberries

Always a welcome sign...tomato flowerettes

Lettuce

Salad greens grow fantastic on the roof..

Whatever it may be I´m growing next year, it will always 

be planted in containers... 

here, I have no problems with slugs and it´s so wonderful to see it´s green 

all over the terrace plus the plants are protected 

from harsh winds.

Thanks for visiting me.

Happy Weekend!

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We´re truly blessed with sunny days the last 2 weeks and that´s good for my potted garden... The newbies are getting bigger day by day.

 

 

...and I can´t wait to make the first harvest of the parsley and the salad greens...

 

 

 

 We´ll have to wait for the fruits of the bell peppers as their early beginnings in the pot weren´t that good due to cold weather last mid June.

 

But,  they´re now showing lots of flowers and I already noticed a pepper popping out the last couple of days. 

I never miss using empty cracker containers for the salad greens and I´m getting more of empty ones once  a month..

I actually started using three of these to give color to my terrace, but then,  they seemed to have grown in numbers as we  emptied cans  of Skyflakes Crackers imported from the Philippines.

I´ll start to harvest my salad greens later today, I´m sure they´ll be crispy and delicious.

 

The chinese cabbage called pechay (paksoi)  grew so fast.. Its Images are still lingering  on my mind when their seeds were sowed a couple of weeks ago for the first time..

 

Right now, I´m facing a problem with the salad greens, insects( larvae)  are enjoying them and six plants,  leaves  of which have been eaten up and the plant got devastated...hhhhmm! 

 

 

 

The Squash climbed up so fast in the trellis  I temporarily made for the purpose. Only thing is , I´m supposed to let its vine grow on the floor. Now, I´m vertically growing it for lack of space and am not sure how the giant fruit would hang from the top vine..   

I had to put a "bandage" ( masking tape) to straighten up the damage Squash vine..

The two potted bell peppers below love intensive sunshine and they feel great when watered at the end of the day  when I come home from work.

 

 

I´ll give an update about the first harvest of the greens in the next days.

 

Meanwhile, do enjoy your time as weekend slowly aproaches!

Thank you for taking time to read this blog.....

 

 

                                                      Xo Xo,

                                               Mercy