My family is trying our hand out at patio gardening since my husband is now a certified "green" architect and thanks to our pop-crazed society, green is the new black.
If you're in Austin and want the experts to start a potted garden for you, check out Resolution Gardens and get to growing. If you're a little haphazard like we are, buy some seeds and spill a lot of organic soil into your pots, your shoes, and the expanse of your patio. We planted tomatoes; basil; and rosemary the first round, yielded three tomatoes the size of raisins--one of which was stolen by a feral squirrel that scared even my husband, who proudly hails from New York; and a monster of a basil tree that simply would not die.
After our first suburbanite's harvest, (because a peasant would have scoffed at our bounty) we're onto round two in November:
These mini carrots were small, squat, and not so tasty. We left them in too long, hoping that after pulling one out occasionally to check its status they would continue to grow. But, thanks to Austin's weather we can garden year round and I am amazed that planting seeds (have you seen just how tiny carrot seeds are?) can produce, well, food.
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