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

[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.