Gardening on the Fifth Floor

We live in a place with a great view and a balcony that is ten inches wide, so planting some food crops has been challenging. Despite the obvious difficulty, we planted some vegetables in containers. A real garden would have been better, but this has provided a chance to work on skills related to growing food, which is an excellent doom-related activity. Even in an ordinary doom like the Great Depression, knowing how to garden is essential.

This is a box (called the "salad bar") with lettuce and beets; we also have a box of herbs, a bag of tomatoes, and another bag of eggplants and bell peppers. I don't know how well this is going to work or how much it will yield, given the cramped quarters.

This is the box of herbs. In order from closest to farthest from the camera, the herbs are oregano, tarragon, chives, lavender, Thai basil, sweet basil, and dill.

Yum, tomatoes! I have planted Early Girl and Sweet 100s. Next year, if this turns out to work, I want to put in some heirloom tomatoes. I'm thinking that Black Seaman tomatoes would be fun, both because the name makes me giggle and because they look like tomatoes from Mars.

That's the bag of eggplants and peppers.

Because the balcony is so incredibly narrow, it was difficult to find pots deep enough for tomatoes and narrow enough for the balcony, so we used some big plastic bags instead.