Container Gardening Grab Bag 7/9

If you’re in Southern California, I hope you’ll join in a meetup group Adriana of Anarchy in the Garden and I have created. Eat Me is a group for Southern Californians who want to meet other gardeners who like growing their own food. It should be a lot of fun to meet in person and chat about gardening. I hope you’ll join us! “Like” Eat Me on Facebook, or follow @SoCalEatMe on Twitter.

Container Gardening Posts:

• Interested in growing carnivorous plants in your apartment? Check out this post on Far Out Flora about Nepenthes, also called Monkey Cups.
• Check out how beautiful Kim’s container garden has become on her Barefoot Gardening blog (which is a great way to garden, in my opinion).
• Kerry has reviewed a nifty looking watering can called U CAN. I like the positive subliminal message of the name.
• If you’re looking for a slender, modern style BBQ for your balcony, check out what Robin posted on Urban Gardens.
• Congratulate Mike on his first homegrown salad eaten on his new LA balcony!

Congrats Karen!

As you all know, I held a quick contest this week to give away two boxes of Triscuits with cards impregnated with seeds, and a $20 gift card to buy gardening supplies. To win, LOTB readers had to submit recipe ideas that used fresh from the garden ingredients and Triscuit crackers. I loved Karen’s simple, yet original idea to combine Marigold flowers, tomatoes, cream cheese & Triscuits. And I’m going to try recipe combining Nasturtium flowers and leaves, figs, and Camembert for the next GROW Project post. Karen, I’ll send you and email so I can get your mailing address. Your prize will be in the mail next week. Enjoy! Smart Pots Update I wanted to pass along a quick observation about my Smart Pot comparison. By now I’ve had my two identical tomato plants in their respective pots (one plastic, one Smart Pot) for about 5 months. I’ve been harvesting tomatoes from both plants for awhile, but the Smart Pot plant is more prolific, healthier, and about 18 inches taller. Cheesy Gardening Joke

Photo by Melissa Robison

Two friars are having trouble paying off the belfry, so they open a florist shop. Everyone wants to buy flowers from the men of God so business is quickly booming. The florist across town sees a huge drop in sales and asks the two friars to close their shop, but they refuse. A month later the florist begs the friars to close because he’s having trouble feeding his family. Again, they refuse, so the florist hires Hugh McTaggert. Hugh is the roughest, toughest thug in town and is hired to “persuade” the friars to close. Hugh asks the friars to close their florist shop. When they refuse, he threatens to beat the crap out of them and wreck their shop every day they remain open, so they close. This proves once again that Hugh and only Hugh can prevent florist friars. [Source] Container Gardening in the News

• New York City reached an agreement with it’s community gardens. The Wall Street Journal has the story.
• Dill is a superb herb. Or at least that’s what Jana Louise Smit of Helium thinks.
• The Seattle Post covers two of my favorite topics: container gardens and cocktails.

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