My Pot Farm (Calm Down, joke... Container Vegetable Gardening)

Growing herbs and other edible plants is fun, and can add variety and flavor to your kitchen! I only dabble in it. If you do container or raised bed, or gardening of a larger scale, I'd love to hear from you and see your plants!


Fresno Chile

 

Not container gardening, but raised beds.... I had a 20k gallon koi pond that decided to take out after most of the fish died in Hurricane Sandy. The boulders were the waterfall for the pond and rather than pay to remove them all, I turned them into a garden. I have herbs along the top and veggies down below. Here is a pic from last year.



*Edit to add.... In this garden I had Okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini, anaheim peppers, ghost chiles, Carolina reapers, butternut and buttercup squash, and a bunch of herbs along the top. Also had flowers throughout as well.

 

I remember smoking pot,.... or do I?

 

I grow herbs hydroponically.

 

This is the internet...

 

I just use the internet to order them, not grow them.

 

Nice pepper!

 

Thanks!

 

Very nice!

 

Nope, no home growing weeds for me, though it is not a state crime in Colorado for any adult to grow cannabis in their own home. I was making a bad pun.

Cannabaceae is an important family of plants. Its members includes hops, hemp and medicinal cannabis, and many ornamental plants. Some noxious weeds as well. Hemp or cannabis is one of the oldest cultivated plants known to civilization, and was like grown originally for its seed and oil. Anthropologists believe early humans ate it quite often, and used the oil as a skin medicine. The psychoactive properties were likely unknown at first. Hemp stalk fiber was ubiquitous in the ancient world as rope, paper, and cloth. The Mandarin character for hemp is drawn to show a plant under a protective structure, showing its early domestication.

However, a funny fact about all cannabaceae is that they do not make flowers that have petals. The beautiful little flower petals on my plant are very common to many chili (capsicum) plants.

 

Sweet 100 cherry tomato:


And just the very beginnings of an ornamental chile called Numex Easter:


Fingers crossed on the Numex Easter. It's my first time growing them from seeds. They have tiny, 3/4 inch pods that point upward, in clusters that look kind of like flowers. They start out purple and end up orange. Very cool looking plant. They're meant to be ornamental, but they are edible.

 

My wife just planted a couple of the golden triangles best.

 

No pics because, frankly, I'm too lazy. But, I've got a few pots out on my back stoop: Italian basil (already grown), beefsteak tomato (flowering, but no fruit yet), and some Thai chilis ("mouse turd chilis") which are just starting to fruit. Looking to add some grape tomatoes in the next week or so.

 

Please show the chiles as it grows.

Very cool, be sure to drop some pics as it matures.

 

It's legal in New York now?

 

Will do. It's not my type of thing but it helps with my wife's fibromyalgia.

 

Will do. Eventually pictures of the garden too. Not much to look at yet.
This year it's cucumbers, onions, carrots, NuMex 6-4 and Big Jim chiles, tomatoes, corn, green beans, and butternut squash. The last three all together, what native Americans called the three sisters.
Also some dill. I didn't plant it this year, but I left some to go to seed last year and a few sprouts have popped up.

 

Added a pot of grape tomatoes today as well as a pot of dragon chilis.

 

No photos at the moment, but next visit to my folks I'll snap a couple. Dad picked up a six pack of tomatoes that I was able to seperate into 8 larger pots. They've since gone into the garden I tilled, along with radishes, okra, and eggplant. I need to weed the asparagus patch so the sprouts can be picked as they show up. The volunteer spearmint has already been harvested once this season. I pick it and hang to dry for cool minty sweet tea. Ran out last winter so I'm going to put more aside this season. The mulberries, dewberries, and black berries have already finished their time. The satsumas, navels, mandarin, Texas sweet, and blood oranges are done blooming with fruit set on. Maybe we'll have a better crop than last year. First it was too dry, then a couple freezes damaged both fruit and trees. Pecans seem to be producing, the figs are getting bigger, and kumquats are blooming. I need to check on the blueberries!