Great idea! Over the past 5 years I managed to pull off some successful vegetable gardens.
Squash, peppers, tomatoes mainly, with many varieties of all except the squash.
That one year I grew squash it was ********* squash and OMG those leaves were around 18 inches.. One of the 'fruits' was the size of a regular watermelon! I will not ever grow squash within the area of my main garden again.. I am not sure if the smaller varieties grow smaller.
RIP to my bonzai'd Lemon and Lime trees, too much drama and crazyness and my having to move killed them last year.. they were 8 years old in small pots.
One of my varieties of raspberries and my 1 asparagus type made the trip over to the new spot, I lost quite a bit, other raspberries and two types of grapes.
Here is a link to what I really wish I had ordered from last year.
Bonsai Tree Seeds Make You Own Pack 12 Varitey to Choose From | eBay
yet it was sort of depressing, if you are young go for it but I was feeling like I would not live long enough to really see the results! I wanted to buy a bunch and divide it up and send off mixtures to my 2 neices 2 nephews & my portion of course.
I have some Mimosa (Sensitive Plant) seeds here, they grow into a freaky plant that will quickly move if you bump the pot or touch them. I should get them going.
Plants are a very interesting thing as they seem to grow with a background of the fibonacci numbering order.. Sunflowers do for one.
Carnivorous plants have always interested me, I seen that Home Depot had more to select from than the regular venus flytrap in the last few years. I have only bought a flytrap and THEN go about trying to setup a terrarium for them, wrong order, I have failed.
That was not enough knowledge: 3 years ago I researched it and its not such a simple thing, it had me outside purifying sand and pebbles of all the nutrient/minerals with rainwater... now I am not quite sure what bag of this and that is what and will have to do it over again.. I used s simple EC meter to read off the mineral contents.
I have these mint plants now, they are pretty cool, they can survive outside in places like Minnesota.. they have a minty smell and taste. I dunno how I would ever share them, growing in the pot I have, I have not seen them seed or anything.
My asparagus threw out some seeds that rewarded me with 17 more plants.
at the last place I had 3 types of hops, one survived the move.. well two I'm thinking, will know next year for sure, yet I harvested from one of them this year, not much but it was something at least.. these are the type of hops you brew beer with :cheers
I harvested massive quantity of them at that place though... at that place I'd watched craigslist in the spring for the free compost postings, load up the van with five gallon buckets, a few shovels & a buddy to help... that stuff was nice.. all around the house and a raised garden practically full of it.. shit..
And this woman from Minneapolis gave me, along with a lot of other things i forget the names of, she gave me a Plume Poppy.. as she said everything was native to the area and she tried to have her yard natural like that.. this Poppy grew 15 feet high each year, not pretty like a flowery poppy but yet unique in its own way.. like a sunflower.
So there ya go, garden veggies, fruits, (i forgot to add strawberries to my list, and blueberries and blackberries), carnivorous plants.. oh yeah i had herbs like basil.. chives.. outside like was suggested here. chives smell great and can be smelt from some distance.
