Starting The Spring Mini-Harvest

The mini-garden is still alive. I have to water it everyday by hand because I don't have the a drip system I suppose I could set up some sort of drip system by hanging a container on the fence and connecting it to drip hose. Since I use recycled washing machine water I prefer to water the plants from the bottom to keep any bacteria away from the edibles.

I only bought one tomato plant and I think that will be plenty. There are more than a dozen green tomatoes right now. I hope they don't all get ripe at once.

This is my first zucchini ever. I wasn't even sure it would grow in a pot. So far so good. The hottest month is yet to come. It might not make it thru the summer but I am still optimistic.

What's Growing Now

Prickly Pear flowers are blooming now. Palo Verde trees are blooming too but I didn't get a picture of them. The bees sure are busy!


These aloe plants survive and multiply even though I don't water them at all. These flowers are a little old. They looked better last week.


Here's my little garden. I have zucchini, tomatoes, strawberries and a few other things. I need to set up some shade for them because they are wilting every afternoon. Not a good thing!

From City To Rural

I rented out my city house until March of 2009 so all of my gardening will be done in pots this year in a rural setting. Too bad all of my pots are black. That can't be very good for the plants. I bet their little roots cook in the summer.

So far I have planted beans, sugar-snap peas, zucchini and sunflowers. I had planted an avocado seed but something stole it! I think it was a squirrel. I pushed my kiddie pool up against the chain-link fence so that the peas can climb it (if something doesn't eat them first. I also plan to add some fencing so that animals can't get in and add some shade to prolong the spring growing season.

I am using recycled water from my washing mashing to water the plants. I add an inch or two of water to the pool and let the roots absorb it. It keeps them watered all week long.

Honeysuckle Thinks It's Spring

I thought this plant wouldn't make it through the year. Now it is trying to bloom. Poor thing. I wish I had a better home for it than this pot.

Giant Cactus Came Tumbling Down

My giant prickly pear cactus used to make a nice screen in front of the mobile home. It grew and grew and when it finally rained, it swelled up and fell over. Poor thing. I feel so exposed! How am I supposed to hide from the neighbors if my cactus falls down?

The Sun, A Blessing And A Curse

Look at the handle on my poor watering can! The sun has eaten it! It certainly doesn't take long for anything plastic to disintegrate. I need a new water bucket. The last one was plastic. The next one will be galvanized metal, definitely!

It's Been A While...

I'm renting out my house and I have moved out to my RV which sits on a couple of cactus filled acres. Not much will grow out here that isn't extremely tough and prickly. I brought a few pots from my house and they are spending the winter in the greenhouse. Last year I planted some seeds in the giant bathtub pot but when the summer came, it got so hot in there that I tried to transplant the poor things in to pots and put them outside. That didn't work very well either. The few things that did survive the heat eventually succumbed to hungry varmits.

Today I planted some beans and sunflowers. Those are the only seeds that I had besides ornamental flowers. I don't want to plant too many things this year because I don't have a protected spot for them yet. My strawberry is stil growing as well as a honeysuckle, yellow and red bird of paradise, and a baby fairy duster.