Comments on: BFP Garden Project: 2 More “Pots” http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/bfp-garden-project-2-more-pots.html personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Elle http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/bfp-garden-project-2-more-pots.html/comment-page-1#comment-350392 Elle Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:27:39 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=2818#comment-350392 I'm glad I'm not the only one growing eggplant! We've moved the veggies to bigger pots since they have grown so quickly. It's been a learning process, but I enjoy having a little garden. I’m glad I’m not the only one growing eggplant! We’ve moved the veggies to bigger pots since they have grown so quickly. It’s been a learning process, but I enjoy having a little garden.

]]> By: Nick http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/bfp-garden-project-2-more-pots.html/comment-page-1#comment-247513 Nick Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:41:53 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=2818#comment-247513 with the tomato salmonella scare, it looks like it was a good decision to grow some after all! with the tomato salmonella scare, it looks like it was a good decision to grow some after all!

]]> By: Glenn Lasher http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/bfp-garden-project-2-more-pots.html/comment-page-1#comment-244609 Glenn Lasher Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:49:12 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=2818#comment-244609 We aren't planting a potted garden, but an actual traditional in-the-ground variety, as we have done for three or four years now. Most of it is in a more-or-less conventional garden plot, but the acorn squash are actually planted in the middle of the back lawn, with a foot to a foot and a half opening in the lawn to accommodate them. For tomatoes, the breed makes a big difference in usability. We grow small-breed tomatoes (cherry and roma) and they populate quickly, ripen quickly and produce a <i>lot</i> of fruit, without the watered-down taste of larger early breeds. They will produce right up to the first hard frost. Don't be afraid to make sauce from cherry tomatoes, by the way. It's quite tasty. We have had terrible luck with lettuce (it usually tastes really bitter), though we are trying our luck this year with spinach and swiss chard. We have grown various breeds of squash for several years now. This year's choice is for crookneck yellow squash and acorn squash. I've been trying to convince the wife to let me plant zucchini, but she isn't having it for some reason. We have a patch where we planted herbs a couple of years ago, and they keep re-sprouting each year on their own, so we have a nearly unlimited supply of maybe five different herbs, plus some wild chive that spontaneously sprouted in the middle of our back lawn. On the mechanics of it all, we have installed soaker hoses in the main garden plot. This is useful to reduce the amount of water needed, and provides a useful vector to send in fertilizer if we need to. We aren’t planting a potted garden, but an actual traditional in-the-ground variety, as we have done for three or four years now. Most of it is in a more-or-less conventional garden plot, but the acorn squash are actually planted in the middle of the back lawn, with a foot to a foot and a half opening in the lawn to accommodate them.

For tomatoes, the breed makes a big difference in usability. We grow small-breed tomatoes (cherry and roma) and they populate quickly, ripen quickly and produce a lot of fruit, without the watered-down taste of larger early breeds. They will produce right up to the first hard frost.

Don’t be afraid to make sauce from cherry tomatoes, by the way. It’s quite tasty.

We have had terrible luck with lettuce (it usually tastes really bitter), though we are trying our luck this year with spinach and swiss chard.

We have grown various breeds of squash for several years now. This year’s choice is for crookneck yellow squash and acorn squash. I’ve been trying to convince the wife to let me plant zucchini, but she isn’t having it for some reason.

We have a patch where we planted herbs a couple of years ago, and they keep re-sprouting each year on their own, so we have a nearly unlimited supply of maybe five different herbs, plus some wild chive that spontaneously sprouted in the middle of our back lawn.

On the mechanics of it all, we have installed soaker hoses in the main garden plot. This is useful to reduce the amount of water needed, and provides a useful vector to send in fertilizer if we need to.

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