Comments on: Trying To Keep Up With It All http://www.squirtbug.com/Garden/wordpress/seeds-starting/trying-to-keep-up-with-it-all/ Gardening in the Rio Grande Valley Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:25:48 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sb158 http://www.squirtbug.com/Garden/wordpress/seeds-starting/trying-to-keep-up-with-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-44 sb158 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:40:41 +0000 http://www.squirtbug.com/Garden/wordpress/?p=249#comment-44 I just painted the buckets white mostly for heat reflection, not that it's gonna help much when it's 91 degrees, and the wind is blowing at 22 mph... I'm seriously considering putting up a PVC frame kind of thing over the tomatoes, and growing either pole beans or some annual vines up the poles and over the top as a shade thing. Maybe even put some rabbit fence or chicken wire around it, and grow something only as tall as the containers, so as to let them get some sun. Or maybe just plant the sweet potatoes, put them in there, and let the vines grow over the sides. Either could work, I guess. That would make the whole thing considerably more attractive, too, which is never a bad thing! As for the chamomile, I didn't intend to grow 36 of them, but the seeds are really tiny, so it's hard to limit how many you sow. Besides, they are small plants, so I can just stick some any-old-where, and they'll fit...the more the merrier, I guess. Hope you don't get a freeze. Almost wish we would, except my garden would really be screwed if we did! At this point, any temperature drop would be a good thing. Some rain would be even better, but it doesn't look like that's happening any time soon. I just painted the buckets white mostly for heat reflection, not that it’s gonna help much when it’s 91 degrees, and the wind is blowing at 22 mph…
I’m seriously considering putting up a PVC frame kind of thing over the tomatoes, and growing either pole beans or some annual vines up the poles and over the top as a shade thing. Maybe even put some rabbit fence or chicken wire around it, and grow something only as tall as the containers, so as to let them get some sun. Or maybe just plant the sweet potatoes, put them in there, and let the vines grow over the sides. Either could work, I guess. That would make the whole thing considerably more attractive, too, which is never a bad thing!

As for the chamomile, I didn’t intend to grow 36 of them, but the seeds are really tiny, so it’s hard to limit how many you sow. Besides, they are small plants, so I can just stick some any-old-where, and they’ll fit…the more the merrier, I guess.

Hope you don’t get a freeze. Almost wish we would, except my garden would really be screwed if we did! At this point, any temperature drop would be a good thing. Some rain would be even better, but it doesn’t look like that’s happening any time soon.

]]> By: Annie's Granny http://www.squirtbug.com/Garden/wordpress/seeds-starting/trying-to-keep-up-with-it-all/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Annie's Granny Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:54:20 +0000 http://www.squirtbug.com/Garden/wordpress/?p=249#comment-43 You've been a busy girl, SB! I'm loving your container garden, and planning something similar myself. Only my buckets aren't a nice white, they are a bright pickle green! I'm going to put smaller containers in front to try to hide them a bit. After 87F temp yesterday, we're dropping down 10 degrees today, then down to the low-mid 60s for about a week (with nights in the 30s....brrr), so I'm treading lightly with my tomatoes and peppers right now, and keeping fingers crossed we don't get a freeze that would damage the garden. I think I'll try to grow chamomile next year. But not 36 of them ;-) You’ve been a busy girl, SB! I’m loving your container garden, and planning something similar myself. Only my buckets aren’t a nice white, they are a bright pickle green! I’m going to put smaller containers in front to try to hide them a bit. After 87F temp yesterday, we’re dropping down 10 degrees today, then down to the low-mid 60s for about a week (with nights in the 30s….brrr), so I’m treading lightly with my tomatoes and peppers right now, and keeping fingers crossed we don’t get a freeze that would damage the garden. I think I’ll try to grow chamomile next year. But not 36 of them ;-)

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