This is my first year gardening. Here are some oldish pictures of the mini garden I have going in containers on the roof. I used some old drawers (some had to be reinforced with screws) and the other containers are repurposed plastic cooking oil containers that I cut the tops off of and drilled some holes into the bottom sides. I used a mix of 99 cent store potting soil (in the plastic containers) and then later I got a chance to go to Home Depot and get some miracle grow organic choice potting soil, which I mixed with generic topsoil and some organic fertilizer (which I suspect is dried powdered steer manure), and used that for the drawer pots. Funny, I actually was given the organic fertilizer as a guilt present by a girl whose foster dog bit my arm one morning when I went up to water my first plants. Unsurprisingly, the plants in the drawer pots with the mixed soils including fertilizer are noticeably darker green and healthy-looking than the ones in the plastic containers with 99 cent store potting soil. Next year I think I’ll get the miracle grow organic choice GARDEN soil instead of the potting version, because this couple started another garden in some containers in another corner of the roof weeks after me using that stuff, and their seeds sprouted very quickly and shot up faster and bigger than mine. I’m no longer jealous though because I don’t think they’re watering it and their garden is totally dying. They never even harvested their arugula and now it’s gone to seed. I know they’re still living in the building…
anyway, here are the plants:
I’m growing (l-r, back-front)
morning glories & sunflowers, tomatoes & jalapenos, butternut squash & corn & beans, sunflower & cucumber, tomato & basil & green onions, cilantro, more sunflowers, eggplant & chives, strawberries.
Eggplant Flower
bonus photo of double rainbow as seen from our roof
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