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Balcony Garden 2010
June 19, 2010 07:09:14 PM
     The garden has been doing pretty good this year, but I sure do have to water it a lot because of Nashville's constant high temperatures. The humidity and bright sun are good for them and even though it's still early in the season, I'm already yielding. Now granted I started them from seeds during the winter indoors under a grow light, that's still pretty good to be harvesting things already. This year I'm growing tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, basil, cilantro, mint, and snow peas.

                        

     Some new things I've learned this year. Some of my tomatoes look like they are rotten on the bottom. This is called Bottom End Rot, and it's usually due to either a calcium deficiency or irregular watering, and I know it's not the water. So for a quick remedy, you can break some ant-acid tablets up and sprinkle that over the soil.

                             

     Also, you should not water your plants at night, especially if they are potted. This encourages fungal growth. This was actually a common problem for me this year because I have been watering only at night. I have a lot more plants this year, and when I water them they drip down onto the downstairs neighbor's balcony, and they have a lot of stuff down there, so I watered at night so they wouldn't catch me getting all their things wet. Well I guess I'll just have to take the risks and go back to watering during the day.

                             

DATE: June 23, 2010 11:13:56 AM     NAME: KM
COMMENT: I just thought that the people downstairs would have already figured out where the water was coming from. If they had any problems, they would have come to us already or moved their things. Gosh, it`s like a plastic and metal jungle where their balcony is. I thought`s it`s not allowed in this complex.

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