Comments on: Hope

By: kristineleuze

kristineleuze — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:01:47 +0000

Yeah, I’m sure you will have a harder time with the shade factor than with the clay factor. But I bet if you enriched the soil with some compost and trimmed back a tree branch or two you could do some carrots and/or potatoes!

By: chiquita

chiquita — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:10:34 +0000

What a beautiful hyacinth! Hope spring comes soon for you

This is my first year living in the Bay Area, where I was surprised to find that spring arrives in late Jan/early Feb. We’ve now got blossoms galore. Before that we were in Japan (spring = mid-March), and before that we were in Chicago (spring = felt like late April-ish?), and before THAT, San Diego (basically no noticeable winter ). It’s interesting how spring arrives in different regions.

I’ve currently got a very shady empty bed on the side of the house where not much will grow…not sure if it’s the lack of sun, or if the soil is just too poor (it’s very dense, pretty much clay). I wonder if there’s a veggie out there that thrives in clay, in the shade. Umm, mushrooms!? lol. Probably have to add some good quality soil…

Anyway, just wanted to say hi – I enjoy reading your blog.

By: kristineleuze

kristineleuze — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:14:46 +0000

Oh for sure! When we lived in an apartment in Minneapolis this is how we had to grow everything. The main thing is you have to get lots of sunlight! I found lots of books on amazon about container gardening:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=container+gardening&x=0&y=0
Almost all our tomatoes last year were grown in containers. They just need support.

By: Devona

Devona — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:09:23 +0000

This is a great idea. Do you know if some of this can be used for container growing? We live in a townhouse and I have been wanted to grow some herbs and produce, but I know it can only be done in containers.