The extensive herb garden. This huge expansive space includes basil of two varieties, mint, marjoram, and another Italian herb. I constantly forget to utilize the fresh flavor in my rare episodes of cooking.
The crowded vegetable garden consists of three pepper plants. We used to have seven but the peppers are so hot, we couldn't begin to keep up with using them. I just repotted these yesterday to straighten them up and let their roots expand. Since I gave away all our pots already, they had to go into buckets and a plastic food storage bin. Hopefully the upright lid to the wood box will help buffer these plants from the strong winds that keep knocking them over and breaking off branches.
The banana tree on the left is part of our fruit orchard, of which the other member is an ultra-dwarf Fuji apple tree. We expect the banana tree to begin producing any decade now. The apple tree, finally planted in the ground (where the homemade doggie dooley used to be), might produce a few apples next year.
This is not quite the garden we envisioned when we bought an acre of land, but life rarely works out the way we plan.
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Hi Chili,
Your plants look very healthy. Especially the banana plant, although I've never seen one in person, so to speak. I imagine that your climate will be kind/mild enough to keep it going until you can find a place to plant it.
I only grew hot peppers once, and I can picture your comment about keeping up with the harvest. For the amount I use, it was better to buy one at the market when I need it than to have dozens that were hard to give away!
But, your gardens are portable and that's the important thing for when you're ready... what happened to the doggie doodle?
It's pretty though.
When we went to Pennslvania for a short year, we were in a rental on abused soil and managed only one overly shaded bed, wrapped in chicken wire for rabbits. The peas from that bed were all that connected us to who we really were, and are bright in memory.
Glad you are back xx
Farmgal - They're doing pretty well. The banana plant has grown a "pup" the same size as the original plant I bought. The guy who sold it to me said they seem to be better at growing pups than growing tall, so I don't know if it will ever actually grow up into a producing tree. We probably won't ever be somewhere we can plant it but hope to take it with us wherever we go as a nice houseplant.
The hot peppers are often very pretty, which is why my sweetie enjoyed growing them. He's not into foods that hot really, but people at the CSA were happy to get them when I took in surplus.
Sharlene - yep. Since we planned to put the house on the market, I got rid of the dooley. There was no smell, amazingly, and it had broken down really well. I'm assuming the tree is enjoying its fertilizer!
Risa - exactly why my sweetie likes the plants! We're considering caged container gardening to deal with the pests.
LTH - thanks.
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