Gardening, Life at No.22

Growing greens in a Vegepod

Suzanne

As most of you know, we bid farewell to our garden plot at the Community Gardens, which wasn’t working out for several reasons and was mainly becoming a time-hungry chore and void of much enjoyment as it was when we first started. It had served a vital task of giving the Squire a purpose to his very short days when energy was short-lived, and his immune system was at it’s lowest. There was fresh air and people to chat with in the open spaces without worrying needlessly. Were priceless. Another big bonus: we had plentiful crops; most of the time, we had too much just for us. Giving away our produce, whether it was to fellow gardeners or visitors to the community gardens, was our weekly pleasure.

There won’t be any more roosters to boost our laughter until we head down to the gardens as visitors.

Then winter came, and all thought of gardening went out the window with each rainy day and icy cold southerlies. Of course, spring appeared to change our minds, and we decided to purchase that Vegepod we’ve been chatting about on and off since leaving the community gardens.

It’s time to introduce you to numerous vegetables and flowers growing consistently in containers on our balcony.

I suggest that those disliking plastic divert their eyes or stop reading as, yes, the Vegepod is made of plastic. No, getting around it, though, we feel that the benefits of freshly grown vegetables in organic soil with no history of other things growing in it, so to speak, outweigh the material it’s made out of.

The Pod – planting day

Our vegepod is a tiny hothouse, enabling us to enjoy picking greenery within two weeks of planting up the spinach, basil, lettuce, coriander and a punnet of cherry tomatoes, which will grow happily in other containers.

A few weeks later

So, living in an apartment doesn’t disclude it’s occupants from having access to growing their own vegetables. However, having the ability to creatively use small spaces is a must-have requirement.

Now I have more time to enjoy this view.
And capture a waxeye in a lavender bush.
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22 thoughts on “Growing greens in a Vegepod”

  2. That view is amazing. I’d live in an apartment for a view like that. I wanted a veg trug which are wooden to grow herbs and salads at waist height, but now I have the new beds I won’t bother, even though they are at the bottom of the garden.

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    1. Thanks, Jude. It’s a lovely space to live in, and I think years of travelling have made us more adaptable to this lifestyle. Yes, I know the trugs you are mentioning. I love garden beds, and unfortunately, in past experiences, my gardening area just kept getting bigger. I do have natural green fingers, so I will always grow something. We do have a few indoor plants, too.

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    1. Janis, I love access to fresh herbs and other greenery, makes a dish pop. This invention is Australian. A local company has the franchise. A wooden one would be reasonably easy to build. We needed a light built one and wheels help to move it around on our balcony.

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  8. That looks great and could be an option for our small patio garden too. At the moment my husband (who is definitely the gardener in our family!) focuses mainly on flowers with a few herbs but I might persuade him some salad greens would be nice too 🙂 I wouldn’t worry about the plastic, it’s not as if it’s single use, and you can always recycle when it comes to the end of its usefulness.

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