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Re: How does your garden grow, FS?

[loracarol]

I'd like some flowers; I wasn't going to get herbs, because I just don't really use them a lot in cooking at this point in time (maybe someday when I have more thyme, but right now...?) I'm thinking about getting a hanging tomato plant, so that it's out of reach of the small children(aren't the leaves bad for people?), but I'm worried about deer. D:

I'll looking to the mint, though. :3

Re: How does your garden grow, FS?

[(Anonymous)]

Okay. Well, flowers that do well in shade are a bit more limited and usually less showy, but you can try annuals like impatiens or pansies, or perhaps some wildflowers which naturally grow in shade, like columbine, phlox, or cranesbill geraniums, which come in a lovely shade of blue. I don't know how anti-deer any of those are, but the wildflower suggestions are very common in nature so they're probably not that tempting. :)

Tomato leaves are mildly toxic, but I think you'd have to eat a lot of them to get truly sick so I wouldn't worry too much about it. Cherry tomatoes are great for container gardening, but they too need half a day's sun at least and plenty of room and fertilizer. Lots of compost.

Re: How does your garden grow, FS?

[loracarol]

I'm cool with that, and I'll look into those! I love shades of blues~

Ah, good. I was thinking about hanging a basket of tomatoes, maybe from the patio above mine, and hoping that it'd be too tall for them, but maybe I'll be able to just put a couple in the dirt area in front of my fence? :D

Re: How does your garden grow, FS?

[(Anonymous)]

I think it'd be okay. If they taste anything like they smell, I doubt they'll have much appeal to kids and they're sort of prickly-fuzzy as well. In general, tomatoes do better in the ground, even one plant needs a lot of space because they can get fairly bushy and sprawl all over. You'll need at least one of those wire cage thingies to prop it up, preferably with a wooden stake to reinforce it. You'll want to amend the dirt with plenty of compost. A couple of sweet 100 cherry tomato plants can yield a pint of tomatoes a week or more, plenty for salads or just eating plain. Nothing beats a homegrown tomato. :)

Re: How does your garden grow, FS?

[(Anonymous)]

When I gardened in Texas, my front porch faced north so it had a bit of morning sun then was hot shade the rest of the day. I had pots crowded along the steps filled with torenia (aka clownflower) and as many different kinds of coleus as I could find. Coleus loves heat & shade but is also fine with milder/cooler weather too. I've seen it used as a landscape planting in western Oregon. Not sure if the deer will eat it -- deer will eat pretty much anything if they're desperate -- but I don't think it's poisonous. It's ridiculously easy to grow, too. Just break off a piece, stick it in water, and it'll have roots within a week. (I confess, I only bought about half my coleus plants each year; the rest I got by surreptitiously snapping off cuttings at display gardens & from public landscaping & rooting the cuttings.) I also had really good luck with vinca -- not the vining/runner kind but one that makes a small, bushy plant. They like shade & bloom like crazy even through a Texas summer.