Comments on: 10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Planning Your Container Garden This Year

By: Fern

Fern — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:07:46 +0000

Catherine–I live in Orange County as well. Pretty much every plant you’ve seen discussed on LOTB can be grown on your balcony. Another great way to get ideas is to shop at independent garden centers, they only carry interesting plants suitable to the climate around the garden center. Here are some garden centers near you:

Green Thumb Int – El Toro
23782 Bridger Road
El Toro, CA, 92630

Living Green Nursery – Lake Forest, CA
25290 Jeronimo Road
El Toro, CA, 92630

Dana Point Nursery, Inc.
34100 Coast Hwy.
Dana Point, CA, 92629

Roger’s Garden Newport Beach
2301 San Joaquin Hills Rd.
Corona Del Mar, CA, 92625

By: Catherine Horowitz

Catherine Horowitz — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:31:55 +0000

I just moved from NY to Laguna Woods, near Laguna Beach CA. I now have a balcony, west facing. My dilemma is what to grow? I just recently got my first plant, a cutting from my friend’s jade plant! How cool is that! But now I need to start to grow some beautiful plants and flowers for my balcony. Any ideas will be grateful!

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By: Fern

Fern — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:56:15 +0000

Sounds great Lissa, I think your tomatoes won’t ming the chard at all.

By: lissa

lissa — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:32:04 +0000

I have been container gardening for a few years. I have also moved every year so not very many have survived. This year I have the least amount of space but no crazy roommates. I have a very small balcony that gets full sun now but who knows what it will be like in a few months. I have more seedlings than I can count. I joined a plant swap group very affective for cheap gardening numerous packets of any seed I can imagine for a stamp how could I resist? Every window is now also full of small pots. I am going to experiment with growing in the plastic tubs I bought to move. I have a few wooden containers out there as well. Hoping my tomatoes can be happy sharing some space with swiss chard. I may try seasonal planting like the swiss chard earlier and then pulling them for the tomatoes. Sorry for the novel.

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By: LJ

LJ — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:06:44 +0000

Nice job breaking it down. Fitting the right plants for the job can make the difference between someone doing this again next year, and someone giving up. I’m trying to do something similar with shrubs, but I often use containers anyway. No rototilling, less digging, less weeding, and moveable.

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