Garden Gets

Saturday, May. 7, 2011 | 38 Comments

Paid a visit to the nursery this morning to pick up some plants for my balcony garden. I didn’t really do any gardening last summer. I think that was a mistake. Gardening is something I’ve done every summer since I was a kid and it’s good for my peace of mind! The year before I did the edamame and herbs, etc. and it was wildly successful and took up most my balcony space! Very forest-like in the end. But I wanted to keep it easy this year with plants I know thrive. I get really weird sunlight ratios haahaa~ Not full sun but more than partial shade. I wish I got full direct sunlight so I could do a ton of blooming flowers. But whatever. I’m doing a tomato + herb garden mostly!! I’ve grown them before & they do great in my location.

herpaderpin around the nursery at like 9:00 this morning. It was really busy still even early~

What I’m growing:

Cherry Tomatoes “Sugary”

Rosemary “Santa Barbara”

Garlic Chives

Lime Thyme

German Chamomile

Portulaca “Sundial Tangerine” shade

Clover “Charmed Velvet”

White Clover “Dark Dancer”

Flying Colors “Red” shade

tiny tomato plant
I love clover

I grew clover a few years ago too and it thrives like the weed it is! It’s super hardy and always so beautiful. This species produces a lot of lucky 4-leaf steams!

The tomatoes will be tiny and useful in salads or on sandwiches. I don’t like tomatoes too much but Mike does and it thrived last time I grew it on my balcony. I, however, LOVE herb plants like thyme and chives which I use constantly! I got the chamomile because it produces little daisy-like blooms. Wonder if I can dry it for tea? I’m going to research that a bit. The flowers I got were the portulaca and this new plant called “Flying Colors!” Never grew the Flying Colors nor even heard of it. But it’s “award winning” and labeled as liking sun/partial shade so here’s hoping! The blooms are tiny and red. Very pretty.