I live in a condo. This means I don’t really have a yard. I have a balcony, and due to being on the ground floor, it is twice the size of anyone upstairs, but it still isn’t a yard. My parents were all about gardening when I grew up, our house always had a huge garden. Most of what they grew was food. We had a lot of berries, various veggies, and of course, our fruit trees. They were old, established trees; my parents didn’t plant them, but I have harvested many an apple and many a plum in my lifetime.
But now, as I said, I live in a condo. I was never very interested in the garden as a kid (apart from it being a place to play) but now I want one. And can’t have one.
At least, not like that old garden. I can now have my own harvest!
The long low pot is mint, the big one has chives, basil, and parsley, and the little round pot (also shown above) is rosemary. The balcony does face north, but it gets some nice sun in the evening, when the sun sets:
Yes, I forgot to open the screen before I took the photo. We’ll see if it is enough sun for my little babies. I’ve already used some of the basil!
Mum said to pinch them so they don’t spread too far, and to stop them going to seed. I wasn’t sure where to pinch, so I just grabbed some leaves and used them in dinner one night.
We do have other plants, but they don’t count because you can’t harvest them. They do add some nice green to the apartment in the winter though. I put them outside for the summer, as they like dry and hot (I think?).
We inherited the rubber tree (tall one in the back) and the two pony tail palms from my boyfriend’s parents’ neighbours when they moved, the rest are all from Ikea so I don’t really know what they are, apart from succulents. I don’t really know how to take care of them; we don’t water them too much as they are desert-type plants I believe. We’ve kept the 3 we inherited alive for almost two years now, so we must be doing something right.
The rubber tree did need staking recently, and I spent some time trying to figure out where I could find something thin, straight, and pointy to stick into the pot, and something soft to tie it to the plant with.
Silly question, really.
