Triumph in the Tubs, Glee in the Garden

Uncork the champers! Raise the roof! I, Foodie, recently harvested, admired, and ate a sweet, glowing, 5 inch long Ichiban eggplant, the first fruit of my brand new veggies- in- pots growing attempt.  ( Well-- I had done some cherry tomatoes in the past, natch--and earlier this spring, some radishes that were woody and dry, alas, but they do not count. Nor do herbs.)

I am the kind of gardener who spends some time every day obsessively peering at my plants, seeking  signs of fruition--as in the teeny tiny cukes I espied this morning in one of my bins. Hubba hubba! Now I am patiently waiting for the female flowers of my zucchinis to appear--the guys have been flowering for days--but Google assures me the females start to come in later, after they've finished shopping or whatever.  Eggplant, tomatoes, cukes and peppers are my starter crops on this grand experiment. All either tucked into bins or the grass green tubs from Israel I stumbled across.

Part of the fun with Ichiban was coming upon the fruit unaware--I had been clucking over the tiny e.plants emerging from flowers, utterly overlooking the shiny purple offering right in front of my nose, and ready to pick. Is there a life lesson here?

Bliss.

Comments

[Cynthia]

Congratulations. The experiment sounds like great fun. What is the size of the tubs? What kind of light do they get. Is this the sort of thing one might be able to manage on the balcony of an apartment?

[Foodie]

Cynthia, thanks--I would think a balcony would be fine--I would have to check the size but they are similar to a round laundry basket. In my garden they get a great deal of sun.....I have basil and marigolds along with the veg in some of them, too.

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[chefjp]

There's no better feeling than eating something that you've grown yourself. Extra satisfaction, perhaps?
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