PADDY said:It's my fault to be honest. Just not making enough cocktails with mint in them!! [huh]
Yep, I'll have to cut it right back. Other herbs like Basil and even parsley just haven't been doing so well this year.
But...I have been trying CHILLI PEPPERS (yes!! in the UK of all places!!) just inside the house by a large window and they are doing GREAT. Been pulling them, chopping 'em and popping them into my dishes!! yum!!
Got some TUMBLING TOMS (little tomatoes that hang down rather than grow upwards) in my baskets at the side of the house, so they'll be nice for salads, pizzas..etc.
PADDY said:It's usually about a week after the flowering dies I tend to dig them up. I use a pitch fork to ease them up but then find I loose a lot of them in the soil, so that's when I get "down and dirty" with my hands sifting through for those golden nuggets!
Warden said:I say, thats sweet of you.
It was a rush job and the images are not great, but that is what happens if you have to rush.
Harry
Been growing 'em this way for a couple of years. A 5 gallon Home Depot bucket with a two inch hole in the bottom works fine, and costs about 4 bucks.John in Covina said:Over in the US there are several companies that market hanging - upside down tomato kits. The picture always has prize winning "maters" on the vine.
rumblefish said:I'd bet everyone who has posted on this thread has been doing it for more than two years.
John in Covina said:I have good friends that are really trying to make a good garden for fruits, vegies and herbs. They have to grow mostly in pots to get anything to go as their soil is about 8 inches deep then you hit a clay like section of hardpan that goes down an unknown depth. We dug down more than two feet thru stuff like concrete and did not get thru that section, Yikes! It won't drain water thru at all.
Same here,,, but it was also our punishment. My brother and I came home tanked one Saturday morning in August, way before we were of age. We were made to work in the fields all day- All 600 hundred square feet of 'em (well, there and the rest of the yard).jamespowers said:I have been gardening with my grandfather and my father since I was about eight. You had to if you wanted anything near an allowance.