I took photos yesterday of every single thing growing in our backyard. We’ve had some hardships in the garden this year with slugs eating away at the broccoli, onions and some other crops. Our beets are pitiful and just about everything else has grown at a much slower pace than last year. But things are starting to pick up and there have been a few surprises. So here’s a pictorial review of everything growing in our small backyard (this is a long post), starting off with a zucchini plant growing upside-down in a bag:
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Stores all over the place have their own “green bags” these days, supposedly to replace plastic bags. The best ones are made from cloth that’s easy to wash. The bags provide an excellent breeding ground of E. coli bacteria if they’re not cleaned every couple weeks, especially the fabric bags with vinyl on the outside — like the ones I’ve converted into growing containers. I took three bags, filled them up with soil, planted some veggies in them and hung them off some fence posts in my small backyard.
Bag #1: Two pepper plants, one them on top and one of them growing out a hole in the bottom. It’s ridiculous, I know.
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An 8-minute low-rez video shot on my Sony Cyber-shot S700 camera (not a good camera). The sound was recorded on my Zoom H2 digital recorder, so at least it sounds okay.
It’s all the rage these days to grow things upside down in various containers, from old 2-litre pop bottles to buckets with holes them, growing herbs, flowers, strawberries, peppers, tomatoes — you name it.
It’s not a bad way to make the most of limited space.
Gardening stores are now getting in on the action, too, selling more expensive, fancier versions of the same thing.
But a $3 bucket with a hole poked in the bottom works just fine for us. All we did was smash a hole in the bottom of a bucket, stick a tomato seedling through the hole, hang the bucket on a stick, fill it up with dirt and water it.
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Shots of our backyard mostly, with tomatoes near the end.
NOTE: This is our old backyard, but our friend who still lives there let’s us use his greenhouse from time to time.
It’s as exciting as it sounds. We recorded this video on our Sony Cyber-shot digital camera (not a video camera). The picture and sound quality are poor.
The tomato plants have been in our greenhouse for 6 weeks (since about the end of May). Before that they were tiny transplants we put out in the greenhouse during the day and brought in at night for two weeks. We didn’t take photographs of our tomatoes this year, but we’ll come back in a month and record another stimulating video to document their growth (if we don’t forget). In the meantime, here’s another video recorded a few days later with a video camera. The quality still isn’t the best, but around the 2:50 minute mark there’s a good demonstration of how to prune a tomato plant.
NOTE: This is our old backyard, but our friend who still lives there let’s us use his greenhouse from time to time.
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