Category Archives: Gardening

This morning I was able to plant the remaining plants: The Little Gem Lettuce Fine Verde Basil Genovese Basil And, a free gift from the good folks at Baker Creek Heirloom Seed, Thai Pink Egg Tomato! “Delicious, grape tomatoes from Thailand, “The Land of Smiles!” The crisp pink fruit are bursting with natural goodness, sweet […]

This morning I planted four Quadrato d’Asti Rosso peppers, one Cocozella di Napoli, and one Early Prolific Straightneck. We’re going to stagger the plantings a bit. We need to get these started so the plants can be repotted into the Earthboxes in a few weeks.

A bit battered. But the EarthBoxes are fine. Our EarthBoxes arrived — three days ago! The FedEx delivery person didn’t leave us a note or anything and I hadn’t gotten an email from the EarthBox folks to tell us they’d already shipped them so we didn’t know until the apartment manager called about the three […]

With the Earthboxes on the way I planted our first tomato plants this morning (indoors) to get them started for when the boxes arrive. The plants are Emerald Evergreen tomatoes from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co.. From their catalog: “Medium-large fruit that stay “evergreen”. This heirloom variety was introduced by Glecklers Seedsmen around 1950. The […]

We can’t always do everything we want in the apartment but this year we wanted to have a better container garden. We’re going to plant using EarthBoxes. For our initial planting we’re going to use five boxes. Should be fun to see how they do on the porch. Later on, if this works well, we […]

All four of the lettuce seeds I planted have sprouted. Now we’ll see how they develop.