Comments on: My own private tomato balcony garden

By: GardenGrrrl

GardenGrrrl — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:05:08 +0000

Well I’m commenting below all the spammers, but I just wanted to point out that it’s actually much harder to grow vegetables in pots than in the ground. It’s so easy for them to either dry out or not have enough nutrients or something. You really have to watch them carefully.

By: Siel

Siel — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:35:29 +0000

Thanks for the good wishes, gardeners. As of now, all 3 tomato plants are still alive –

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:57:30 +0000

We have a huge yard but really do not have the time for a garden garden….so planted some tomatoes in pots (my neighbor kept saying that they will not grow)…HAHAHA…also saved the seeds from some bell peppers and planted those too, also planted some around the deck. We have had LOADS of tomatoes, and some peppers. The peppers in the pots have done better than the one in the ground. We even had a surprise plant grow out of the tomato pot….CUKES…

It was so nice to eat a salad with a cuke from the garden..and then go outside and pick a fresh tomato and pepper from the garden…YUMMMMMM..

GOOD LUCK

By: Fern

Fern — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:27:08 +0000

Good luck! I’m sending positive tomato vibes your way.

If things don’t work out with these tomatoes, don’t get discouraged! Gardening is always a learning experience. There is a saying that I really like, “You don’t really know a plant until you’ve killed it three times.”

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:08:05 +0000

Thanks for mentioning Grow Your Own! I used to grow tomatoes, peppers, and herbs in pots on my balcony in Chicago. They didn’t give the same yield as plants in the ground, but did pretty well. Keep at it! Container gardening does work, you just have to tend the plants a little more.

By: EcoLarry

EcoLarry — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:40:28 +0000

woops…forgot to add that I had my share of the first tomato on a swiss cheese sand, with Armenian cucs from our garden. Now why did I just ramble so much about veggies?

By: EcoLarry

EcoLarry — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:33:33 +0000

We picked our first tomato this morning. They’re slow ripening, we think, because of all the smoke from the 1000 forest fires that hung in the air here in Mendoland for well over a month. But it was yummy. Had my share (our community has 3 veggie/vegan veggie lovers) Louisa and I went to our local (Redwood Valley) farmers’ market to trade walnuts for some more tomatos, and we just spent the afternoon making salsa…yummy 2. We don’t have a balcony garden, but it’s so cool to see gardening happening everywhere these “get more greener” days. Yay for Siel’s balcony garden!