Bodacious Containers

Barbara Dooley-Huser and her assistant Pat created two bodacious containers. Barbara only uses really large containers. She believes in a couple of planters instead of a landscape with lots of little plants. This one is deer resistant.

Start your planter with an evergreen. This one has a tropical giant spider lily, underplanted with Diamond Frost euphorbia, one gallon yellow snapdragons, quart size geraniums, with a surprize of lettuce in the front. (This planter would be an excellent lunch for the deer.)

Come out today for Herb cooking demonstration, creating gardening memories, and what is new in organics.

See you later.

Pizza Pot Update

The pot has turned into quite the garden. Juliet tomatoes ripening each day. I have harvested basil off the two varieties a couple of times and they are ready to trim again. One big fat Purple Beauty bell pepper is hanging out on the left. More jewels to behold as you look inside.

Juliet tomatoes

Ok, there are way too many plants in this pot but I am trying to prove a point. The point is "fertilize". This pot gets at least one dose of some kind of fertilizer each week when I fertilize the 4" herbs. (This is also the tomato that I doctored with the "Plant Wash" earlier this season.)

This pot has large leaf basil, aussie sweetie basil, garlic, italian and greek oregano and a Juliet tomato plant. I prune and pinch the basils and oreganos to maintain the air circulation in these close quarters.
While I was trimming the basils back I noticed these! Juliet is a great tasting tomato. Not as acidy as most tomatoes. Back to the point... Potted plants need food especially if you push their limits.