Deck Garden

User 636 · June 17, 2015

I container garden on the back deck of my town house. It's gone rather well. Better than I expected.

I have a lot of tomatoes up here and I have plenty of fruit on my plants. I've even had my first ripe tomato which was a lemon boy. Now I'm waiting for more to ripen. However, I wanted to share a bit since i think I'm doing pretty good for a newbie and hopefully to encourage people that have limited space that containers can make it work.

While my space is tight I tend to have regular breezes since we are twenty feet up. My plants are not getting wet or staying damp. I'm not doing many things right but the plants seem happy.

My lemon Boys, yellow pears, and black krim over on one side.

My indigo rose. It has at least 40 tomatoes on it at the moment. The purple areas are jewel like in the sun.

The Big Boy. We have a mix of yellow, black, purple, and red tomato plants. I also have cherry tomatoes in another pot. Just waiting for them to turn colors. Everything has tomatoes on it. The yellow pear are just draped in tomatoes. Eventually they will ripen and I can decide if I like them or not.

I also have other veggies up here. Squash, zucchini, more squash, potatoes, lettuce, sugar snap peas, jalapenos, cucumbers, melons, carrots and some more stuff. I had to give some away to the neighbor yesterday.

The cucumbers and zucchini seem to triple in size over night. Its a pretty tight fit up here and I feel like I'm wading through a jungle every day. It has been worth it however. I'm doing a lot of measurements and daily tracking of how fast some of this stuff grows and gets ready to be plucked.

Its pretty fascinating stuff. It takes a lot of time and attention but its been worth it. I water in the evenings when I get home from work. I'm out the house by 0530 so I don't have time to water in the morning. My mother has been staying with me so she will water them in the morning on hot days. I get wilt from the yellow pears almost every day but considering that they are now taller than I am we're doing quite well. The straw mulch was a life saver and keeps the dirt from drying out in these hot, hot days we've had since the start of may.

I'm in Northern Virginia and started almost everything here from seed on my windowsill at the end of March.

June 17, 2015	#1
User 636 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2015 Location: Virginia Posts: 36	Deck Garden I container garden on the back deck of my town house. It's gone rather well. Better than I expected. I have a lot of tomatoes up here and I have plenty of fruit on my plants. I've even had my first ripe tomato which was a lemon boy. Now I'm waiting for more to ripen. However, I wanted to share a bit since i think I'm doing pretty good for a newbie and hopefully to encourage people that have limited space that containers can make it work. While my space is tight I tend to have regular breezes since we are twenty feet up. My plants are not getting wet or staying damp. I'm not doing many things right but the plants seem happy. My lemon Boys, yellow pears, and black krim over on one side. My indigo rose. It has at least 40 tomatoes on it at the moment. The purple areas are jewel like in the sun. The Big Boy. We have a mix of yellow, black, purple, and red tomato plants. I also have cherry tomatoes in another pot. Just waiting for them to turn colors. Everything has tomatoes on it. The yellow pear are just draped in tomatoes. Eventually they will ripen and I can decide if I like them or not. I also have other veggies up here. Squash, zucchini, more squash, potatoes, lettuce, sugar snap peas, jalapenos, cucumbers, melons, carrots and some more stuff. I had to give some away to the neighbor yesterday. The cucumbers and zucchini seem to triple in size over night. Its a pretty tight fit up here and I feel like I'm wading through a jungle every day. It has been worth it however. I'm doing a lot of measurements and daily tracking of how fast some of this stuff grows and gets ready to be plucked. Its pretty fascinating stuff. It takes a lot of time and attention but its been worth it. I water in the evenings when I get home from work. I'm out the house by 0530 so I don't have time to water in the morning. My mother has been staying with me so she will water them in the morning on hot days. I get wilt from the yellow pears almost every day but considering that they are now taller than I am we're doing quite well. The straw mulch was a life saver and keeps the dirt from drying out in these hot, hot days we've had since the start of may. I'm in Northern Virginia and started almost everything here from seed on my windowsill at the end of March.