Apartment Dwellers You Can Have
a Vegetable Garden
By Kimberly
Cierech
I have a very limited garden area and decided to do something
different this year. I planted my tomatoes in hanging baskets.
Tomato's take up so much space in my tiny little garden, and I
don't have much room to spare.
On May 1st, I bought 3 coconut shredded
hanging baskets. I cut the bottom with scissors to make an X. I
gently guided my cherry tomato plant through the cut X until I
had all of the little leaves poking out of the bottom. I did
this with all three baskets, although I replaced one of the
cherry tomato's with a Big Boy just to experiment and see if
the yield, by the middle of summer would be too much for a
hanging basket to handle.
After I placed the plants carefully through the X, I placed
potting soil over the root system and smoothed out the soil. I
then planted the herbs that we had started from seed on the
surface of the dirt. I planted parsley, basil, tarragon and
thyme. I also added a Kimono plant that stays very low, for
color. I added a little chicken doodle to each basket and
gently watered. I hung them up by the car port and hoped for
the best.
For the first week the poor plants just sagged there like a
chicken would hang after slaughter. By the second week I knew
they were out of shock because all of them were trying to perk
up their heads towards the sunlight. By the third week they had
kicked in and were growing like crazy.
It has been seven weeks now and I have several bunches of
cherry tomato's on each of my two plants. The Big Boy plant has
over 20 dime diameter tomato's on it and I am hoping that it
won't be too much weight for the plant to carry. This was done
as an experiment so we will have to wait and see.
If you live in an apartment or just don't have very much garden
space like me, I believe this is the perfect solution. I have
heard that you can use a variety of garden plants. Next year I
plan on doing just that. With the cost of food skyrocketing it
is an ideal way to save money and eat healthy. I have placed
several pictures online if you are interested in seeing how
they are turning out.
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