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.

[lulabelle72.livejournal.com]

YUM...

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

[southernwitch69.livejournal.com]

Lurvely, my dear. :)

[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!

[abitofadork7.livejournal.com]

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

[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!

[voxangelus.livejournal.com]

It looks fabulous!

[apisa-b.livejournal.com]

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