Question and Survey About Gardening/Landscaping

[ElaineMonster]

Yes, we bought transplants. We started too late in the season to begin with seed, besides, we're new at this and didn't want to get too discouraged too quickly.

Our veggie garden box is a guerrilla garden, meaning we don't own that property [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] It's below our apartment in an unlandscaped area. It was landscaped at one time years ago because the sprinklers still water it. (The maintenance people have seen it but no one's done anything to harm it or told us to get rid of it.)

And yes, we brought in soil. The desert land is really very clay-like and practically impossible to penetrate. So we just "built up" as they say. We framed the box in redwood (about $50 for materials) and filled with Pay Dirt from Star ($60 or so). Each plant was a buck or two, so the total project cost under $150.

We needed to make it relatively inexpensive in case someone destroys it. We're doing it mostly as a hobby and to prepare for our future home. Ed is really enjoying it. He gets all excited when the leaves turn direction or when there's a new pepper.

The peppers do really well. We also have some herbs on the porch in containers. The basil is incredible! It grows like a weed. We have cilantro, lavender, thyme, oregano... they ALL do well!

We've also been growing wheat grass. This is for our cats to chew. They really enjoy it. We have catnip on the patio for them, too. They like it.

Our only failures so far are the strawberries. We had them in a container on the patio and they are ruined. THey look like they got some sort of fungus. We're not sure what happened to them. Oh, and we had some rosemary that we over watered and drowned. The new rosemary is fine.