Thank you to this wonderful community for inspiring me so much. I wish I had a garden and I am thinking more and more about moving out of the city to buy some land to turn into a native plant area. In the meantime I try and provide some habitat in the city. I had many bumblebees and bees, moths, caterpillars, beetles, birds. Every plant counts nowadays. We have so much ecological destruction it breaks my heart but this community really gives me joy.
Some errors of this year:
1. Not starting sooner
2. Buying seedmix with no knowledge whatsoever and yes it had invasives in there 💀. I pulled them all out as soon as I realized.
3. Not planting plants that provide seeds to birds. I cant do a lot about it now but something I want to change next year.
4. Not buying big enough containers
Maybe this helps someone as well! Hope next year will be even better.
by Confident-Jicama-572
3 Comments
Beautiful.
Great start!! Thats awesome how much life you’ve attracted!! I haven’t grown in a balcony container set up for awhile so i’m curious which native plants do well in them or how well the critters find them.
I do recommend increasing pot size as much as you can get away with, and use the smaller pots for starts, if you get the chance to upgrade. 5 Gallon buckets or plastic tote containers with holes drilled in them do just fine if you don’t wanna spend money on big planters.
Hopefully you’ll have fertile seed to disperse around your neighborhood!
Nice job!