Thursday, April 30, 2009

Vegetable Seed Selection 2009

2009 Vegetable Seed Selection
Choosing different vegetable seeds to grow each season is one of my favorite parts about gardening. Since I have very limited room to grow things in my rooftop container garden I have to rigorously edit what I plant. I stick with vegetables that produce multiple fruits per plant.  I love onions and carrots, but they're not an efficient use of my available space so they're not an option for me to grow. These are the ones that made the cut:

Celebrity Tomato: 2 plants
Orange Paruche Cherry Tomato: 1 plant
Hansel Eggplant: 2 plants
Golden Star Pepper (yellow sweet bell pepper): 4 plants
California Wonder Pepper (red/green sweet bell pepper): 1 (maybe)
Orange Belle Hybrid II Pepper (orange sweet bell pepper): 4 plants
Jalapeno Heaven Hybrid: 1 plant
Babylon Cucumber: 1 plant
Oregon Sugar Pod II Peas: 1 12" container

The orange pepper, the jalapeno and the red/green pepper are seeds I kept from last year. I like the orange pepper so much that I think I'll plant it every year.

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Monday, April 13, 2009

Rooftop Pics

Bushwick Rooftop Container Vegetable Garden
Bushwick Rooftop Container Vegetable Garden
I finally brought my camera home from work so I took some 'before' shots of the roof. The 12" self watering planter in the background has direct sown peas which have yet to sprout. I waited until the train passed by to maximize the drama.

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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Welcome to the new site!

I'll be tweaking the site for the next few days so don't be surprised if things look different each time you visit. Hope everything works as it should, please let me know if it doesn't.

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