Growing culinary delights

[lady_karelia]

I totally get a kick out of harvesting herbs minutes before I use them, and I use them a lot. And when I was hunting for herbs, I found a few tomato plants as well, and our balcony isn't quite as exposed as the patio last year was, so I'm hoping for a crop of tomatoes, too. Oh, and I couldn't resist the habanero pepper of course.





The first of two TopsyTurvies, which ariadne1 gifted me, with the tomato plant who doesn't know it's supposed to grow upside down.



Three tomatoes in the making. Yes, I know they're tiny. But I'm watching them grow. ;)



Hanging kitchen garden with sweet basil, oregano, and curly parsley



Hanging tomatoes, not upside down



Sitting kitchen garden with lavender, English thyme, rosemary, and habanero pepper



The as yet developed tomato patch (with lemon basil on the left), which will be tended to after I find more organic soil. Garden center had only two bags left.


Now, to name the garden...

Comments

[christev.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, lovely!! I'll have to post pictures when I finally get my act together and plant flowers in my back porch pots.

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, please! *lurves picspam*

[lulabelle72.livejournal.com]

YUM...

I especially love thyme. I usually grow lemon and english.

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Hm. I don't think I've tried lemon thyme. I'm not overly impressed by the lemon basil, as it doesn't smell or taste basily at all, I find. I'd love to have some French thyme, but so far, haven't found any...

[southernwitch69.livejournal.com]

Lurvely, my dear. :)

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Thank you. xD

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

Very nice, but eventually you'll have to repot your rosemary or else it'll invade and take over the others. Parsley is polite, it'll leaf everwhere, but not go epic. I have four rosemarys that started out life like that two years ago, and are almost hedge size. I don't see any mint... but you know that will need it's own container too. It migrates...everywhere.

I wanna see pictures when the tomatoes come in. Splendid garden!

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I realised that after I planted them, but given the containers I had to play with, there wasn't much choice. Mind you, the pepper is only annual, so I might be lucky and can wait until the pepper is done before I rearrange the whole thing... Ideally, I'd like the rosemary to grow big and give it its own big, pretty container.

I do have mint, and yes, it's in its separate pot, but it needs replanting, too, because it's already growing like there's no tomorrow. xD

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

Today mind you, what a co-winkydink. I hacked back my rosemary to make room for the parsley that wasn't getting enough light because of them. I had oodles and oodles of clippings. I hadn't hacked at them before because I knew I didn't want to toss it, but a sorta-friend just opened a restaurant, so we dropped them by. And the mint.

I still have 3 oversized fistfulls of rosemary. And the bushes look barely pruned. Yeah, rosemary gets big fast.

[abitofadork7.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm weird, but I love the smell of oregono. :-)

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

That makes us both weird, then. I love oregano! Its smell, its taste, there's nothing not to like about it, I find. :D

[abitofadork7.livejournal.com]

I agree. :-)

[ariadne1.livejournal.com]

Love the picspam... love, love, love! :)

I so admire all your beautiful plants, and am thrilled to see the TopsyTurvy in use! Perhaps if you lecture the tomato quite sternly it will do as it ought (although it may know best)... it seems to have worked for the basil... *laughs*

I'm off to check the temperature in the dorm cheese fridge annietalbot brought during the Great Fridge Catastrophe of 2008... that thermostat and probe looks quite, hrm, industrial. *giggles*

P.S. Doesn't having a garden make home feel more homey? I just love gardens... and pics... can't wait to watch yours grow!

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

*smiles*

It's very tiny compared to your garden, but I can't have an outdoor space and not garden; that seems impossible for me. And as this is my second summer in this part of the world, I'm hoping I learned from last year's adventure of growing tomatoes. I think for now, I'll let the tomato do its thing. It's grown an amazing amount in less than two weeks, so it appears to know what it's doing, and it's pretty stury.

Oooooohhhhh, cheese fridge! What cheese are you going to make next?

Yes, it does make the home feel more homey. Although... it's still Memphis, LOL!

[melenka.livejournal.com]

Yes, but our new garden is an exercise in insanity... er, I mean cooperation. When it was just my garden, it was much smaller -- and I still required help to keep it going. There's a lot to be said for container gardening, especially the part where there aren't any weeds. ;)

[voxangelus.livejournal.com]

It looks fabulous!

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

*beams*

Thank you!

[apisa-b.livejournal.com]

Brilliant.
I like your pot - no pun intended - garden!