Vegetable Plantings for 2024 - Container and Tower - June 2024
When I think back on my gardening journey, I really started as a vegetable gardener. Tomatoes, peppers, squash, beans, herbs and more. When we moved, I really leaned AWAY from vegetables and into perennials and foliage. Why? Shade vs. Sun. Our old garden had ALL Sun. Our new one has almost ALL Shade. But, I began to solve that by building a patio vegetable garden set-up over the years. First, with a raised planter box. Then last year, with a Greenstalk tower. #19 on my 2024 to-do list is to 'do more with vegetables' . How am I going about doing that? By planting a couple of bush tomatoes and some other things. First the tomatoes. I've mostly settled on ONLY planting bush tomato plants. This year, I bought one at the Morton Sale - Tiny Tim Cherry. I also picked up two others at the big box store: Little Napoli - which is a roma in bush form (kinda neat) and Little Bing - also a cherry. Below is a look at the three in the raised box: I normally grow basil an