I finished planting my patio garden this week. I use BIG pots and grow potatoes, tomatoes, sugar peas, onions, squash, cucumbers and herbs. The plants are beautiful all summer so there isn't really a reason to plant flowers, except for my hummingbirds and bees. They have two plants that I purchased with blooms and help to pollenate the tomatoes.
My tip for pollenating, use a tomato cage and paint just the TOP rim with bright, yellow outdoor paint (Michael's sell little bottles for a couple of dollars). I came up with this idea last year and the bees swarmed the plants and I had TONS of tomatoes. So easy and so simple.
Planted potatoes on St. Patrick's Day for 'good luck throughout the year' and they are already a foot and a half tall. I love sticking my hand in the soil and pulling our the fresh potatoes, but I have to wait until the green plants start to die off. Then you know they are ready for harvest.
So if you are short on space, think about planting a patio garden. It's very rewarding!
My tip for pollenating, use a tomato cage and paint just the TOP rim with bright, yellow outdoor paint (Michael's sell little bottles for a couple of dollars). I came up with this idea last year and the bees swarmed the plants and I had TONS of tomatoes. So easy and so simple.
Planted potatoes on St. Patrick's Day for 'good luck throughout the year' and they are already a foot and a half tall. I love sticking my hand in the soil and pulling our the fresh potatoes, but I have to wait until the green plants start to die off. Then you know they are ready for harvest.
So if you are short on space, think about planting a patio garden. It's very rewarding!