Tag: container gardening

Crops you can still plant in October!

Hi guys! Today I am going to show you crops that you can still plant RIGHT NOW! Even if your first expected frost is coming up soon you can still plant these! So let’s start!

the first crop that you can plant right now is cold or maybe even frost tolerant greens. A good one is mustard greens. I like to grow a certain variety called giant red mustard. It’s really good! Even if you don’t have enough days before frost date for your mustard greens to fully mature, you can harvest their baby leafs as baby lettuce. You can also protect them from the frost by covering them with different materials. Soon I will do a post on that.

The second crop that you can plant now is arugula. Arugula is another plant grown for its leaves, and is extremely fast growing and loves the cool weather. It might even be able to withstand a light frost.

The next crop you can plant are radishes. Some radishes can grow really quickly, and can sometimes tolerate a light frost. And even if your radishes don’t have time to grow their radish parts, you can still eat their greens!

One of the last but not least list of crops that you can plant now is spinach! Spinach is SUPER heat intolerant, and loves the cool weather. Plus, even if your spinach plant doesn’t have enough time to grow it’s full sized leaves before that frost, you can harvest and eat it’s small leaves as baby spinach greens.

The last crop but definitely not the least, are turnips! Now, if you’ve grown turnips before, you probably know how long they take before they are ready to harvest, but we are growing them for their greens! Many people like to eat their leaves or put them in cooking recipes.

That is it for today’s post! I hope you enjoyed it. I will do another post on how to protect your plants from a light frost soon. If you enjoyed this post leave a like and comment down below what is your favorite crop from this post. Bye!

Small space gardening #1

Recently many people have been starting to garden. Especially now, during the coronavirus pandemic going on. But not everyone has a garden to grow in. In this same we are going to look at container gardening and other small space garden options. Make sure you look at my mason jar herb garden posts!
let’s get started!

In this post, we are going to talk about a pretty popular way of small space gardening, container gardening! Container gardening is definitely your best bet for small space gardening. Here are some pros and cons of container gardening:

Pros: Portible, if you need to move your container to a sunnier location or a dryer one, container gardening makes this super easy! All you have to do is pick it up and move it. Another pro of container gardening is that you get less weeds because your plant is not in the ground. There are many more good things about gardening in containers but that is all I’m going to mention today.

Cons: a con of this method of gardening is that because your plants are in a restricted area, their roots suck all the nutrients out of the soil. Which means that your have to fertilize your plants more often. The last con that I have about container gardening is that your have to water more often. But this can be fixed by installing a drip irrigation system. But I don’t recommend trying to do that if this is your first time container gardening.

Over all, container gardening is a super fun and reliable way to garden. I really recommend it if you are a beginning gardener, or if you are an expert gardener.

That is all for today’s post! I hope you enjoyed it. In the next post of this series, we will talk about how to make/grow your own container garden! Stay tuned for my next post. Bye!