So, my container garden has been growing for about a month. I live in the neighborhood of West LA which is actually a small neighborhood in the larger region of 'West LA'. Anyways, my balcony faces West towards the setting sun, and is basically on the first floor of the building. It gets sun in the mid afternoon to evening.
As you can see, I have collected a lot of my containers from random places. Most are water and juice containers that I cut the top off of and put holes in. I also have a couple cardboard boxes that I am using as well and those seem to be working just fine. I think that my only problem with the cardboard is that I haven't found deeper ones yet.
Here you can see, from back to front, soy beans, two small pepper sprouts, Chinese Parsley (cilantro), a pole bean on the left and a small broccoli on the right. All of these have been grown from seed! I was very surprised how easy the seeds were. The only ones who didn't sprout were the Cilantro (as opposed to the "Chinese Parsley (cilantro)" which are doing great as you can see).
So, below is my tomato plant. It is giving me the most problems as it has become infested with two different bugs. Inchworms and Miner Flies.
My carrots are doing amazingly well, but they are very dense, I will need to thin them out soon.
My Chives, Chard and Arugula are probably the healthiest of all my plants.
These are a few of my pole beans which are beginning to climb up the twine I put out for them. They have had some problems as you can see from pests, but I think now that they are on their way up they will be doing much better.
As you can see, I have collected a lot of my containers from random places. Most are water and juice containers that I cut the top off of and put holes in. I also have a couple cardboard boxes that I am using as well and those seem to be working just fine. I think that my only problem with the cardboard is that I haven't found deeper ones yet.
Here you can see, from back to front, soy beans, two small pepper sprouts, Chinese Parsley (cilantro), a pole bean on the left and a small broccoli on the right. All of these have been grown from seed! I was very surprised how easy the seeds were. The only ones who didn't sprout were the Cilantro (as opposed to the "Chinese Parsley (cilantro)" which are doing great as you can see).
So, below is my tomato plant. It is giving me the most problems as it has become infested with two different bugs. Inchworms and Miner Flies.
My carrots are doing amazingly well, but they are very dense, I will need to thin them out soon.
My Chives, Chard and Arugula are probably the healthiest of all my plants.
These are a few of my pole beans which are beginning to climb up the twine I put out for them. They have had some problems as you can see from pests, but I think now that they are on their way up they will be doing much better.
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