Category: City Gardening

In heavy rain, picked up three cart-loads of plants from a garden center for our balcony. Being contrarian paid off: there were plenty carts, and no lines at the checkouts.

Right now, we’re not going to warm places, but we can bring warm places to us. Thank you, Dwight.

Didn’t shower.

Dwight transformed a Honda Fit-load of twigs and branches into winter interest on our balcony.

Filled our Honda Fit with boughs and twigs.

Our patio furniture is now inside for the winter. Dwight is the gardener with the vision, I designed and built the lighting and irrigation.

Best pea shoots yet.

Our tomato espalier experiment is going well. However, we’ll still be walking over to the local farmers market on Saturday.

Our pea shoots created their own skyline.

“Just going to look,” he said as we drove towards Bachman’s Garden Center.