Our Home Vegetable and Herbs Garden | Stay-at-Home Project
A year ago this month, my family started our very own small vegetable garden in our home. We did not have a front yard or a backyard. What we got is our second floor unfinished balcony. But first I will tell you what motivated us, specially to start to grow our our food.
Two of the many cinnamon basil plants in our garden. The vine-like plant is Bittermelon
Last year, March 16 to be exact, our country, Philippines, declared for an Enhanced Community Quarantine because of Covid19. People were instructed to stay at home. The same with the rest of the world. With this time staying at home, people in the country got interested in gardening. Our family was one of them.
Since we didn't have a lot of garden space, we turned our second floor balcony into a vegetable garden using recycled materials like cans and plastic water bottles as pots. We collected used cans and plastic bottles from our neighbors. This is in a way helping Mother Earth by recycling.
We started with few plants. The first vegetable that we planted was Choy Sum then eventually added more. Since then we had harvests like pechay, okra, mustard greens and more.
Okra. One of our past harvest.
Some of the plants in our garden were from the seeds of our kitchen scraps. Like this bitter melon. From the store bought bitter melon, we got the seeds and planted it in our own garden. I hope this will continue to grow big and be ready for harvest.
Bitter melon.
Other plants from kitchen scraps ; Lemon, Kalamansi and Kamote Tops.
Kalamansi plants, almost a year old. No fruits yet.
Eggplants and Lemon plants. Lemon also almost a year old. No fruits yet.
Kamote Tops and some spinach
Other plants and herbs in our garden.
Eggplants.
Sweet Basil
Parsley.
Chives
Mint
I don't know a lot of recipes that uses the herbs that I have in our garden but I am looking forward in posting food recipes with it. Or do you have a recipe to share? I will truly appreciate it.
I am glad that we were able to start this home garden and it has provided us food. Harvest may not be that much but in a way it made us self-reliant and self-sufficient. It also gives me a happy feeling watching the green view. I am amazed every time I see the plants . How wonderful nature is.
This post is in response to the Garden Journal challenge, hosted by @riverflows, that you can find in there link :
https://hive.blog/hive-120078/@riverflows/garden-journal-early-april-2021
I hope you enjoyed reading and looking at the photos of our plants. Until next time!
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This is really lovely. The lockdown has brought creativity out of your family. Perhaps no one could have thought that the balcony can be utilized for such activity. If everyone can imbibe this kind of attitude, the world will not experience any food crises.
Thank you so much. We were really excited with the outcome of our efforts in taking care of our garden. And we are glad that we are able to do so.
I love the ingenuity of your vegetable growing. I too have limited space.
Seeing your post with the beautiful plants growing and the food you have grown has really inspired me to take that leap of faith with using pots.
Fantastic post, thank you for sharing your food-growing journey.
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You are very welcome and thank you too!! The lockdown did gives us time to be creative and made use of what is available. And I am glad that we chose to do so. The garden gave us a lot of benefits..
I love adding herbs to salads, and to teas. I add parsley to a lot of cooking, or just eat raw straight from the plant - very good for iron!
I love how lockdown forced people to start gardens - one really good thing to come out of these times! And such creative ways too - love hte use of bottles! Great to see you can plant a garden even in a small space on your verandah.
Awesome post, thanks so much for sharing !
I have not tried eating eat raw straight from the plant, but will definitely try that! thank u!
I am also happy that we were able to do so. It amazes me every time that we were able to do it. specially when we have harvest.
You are very welcome and Thank you too!!
Lovely veggie garden in a container, additional healthy food for the family. That result to more savings.
very true Ate. saves us money at the same time we know where the veggies came from.
So nice garden met, keep eating organic for your growing children
thank you Nay. oo para tipid and healthy din.
Awesome job, I really love re using my vegetable ends like celery and onions to re grow. Was the lemon hard to get growing ?
It was not really that hard. I found a video in youtube about how to grow lemon from seeds. I followed the instructions.. Waited for few days to for the seeds to have roots then transfered it to the soil.
Thanks going to see if I can get one started
You are very welcome. 😊
not having a garden is not a reason to not plant anything! your post is a clear example of that! it is great that can sow in pots and get many food like you do, keep doing a good work!
Thank you so much! True!There are so many ways to grow plants even if we don't have a lawn. In our case we bought garden soil and placed it in pots.. We are grateful we able to do it.
Good to see your chives growing, I failed twice growing them. They simply wilt not sure if I am over watering them. What's your secret?
I'm watering it twice a day. One in the morning and in the afternoon.. Sometimes just once a day . Thank you for stopping by.
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This is so cool! Good work! Like yourselves, when COVID hit, I lost my job and was unsure how the situation would unfold. We live in a very rural area and there was talk of our grocery stores closing among other things. So, I also started a garden on my balcony.
I had a lot of failed experiments. Our balcony is on the first floor and critters such as chipmunks could still easily climb up and steal my seedlings. That's where a lot of things failed. I managed to grow some pretty good crops of cilantro as well as a fair amount of successful tomato plants. Some green beans and my lettuce was doing well until an unexpected frost killed it.
The nights are still cold where I am this year so I haven't started up my new garden yet. However, soon I will start planting seeds indoors and move them outside once the weather is looking a little better. I'm now following you for motivation! Your plants look great and you were certainly more successful than I was :)
Thank you for your visit. That is really a challenge when critters are around and also the weather is another challenge. Hope your plants will grow and flourish.
I am happy that our plants grew and has produce harvest. Planning to plant new seeds this week.
Kick ass! Any plans on what you're going to plant next?
I still have seeds of mustard greens and pechay here. hopefully they are not expired yet. lol
Yesterday just transferred some spring onions that was seating in our kitchen for a couple of days to pots. planning to make a post about it very soon.
hahah yeah I never know if my seeds are still good or not. Awesome! I can't wait to see more of your progress
I had a new post about garden update. You might want to check it out. Looking forward for your garden progress too! When the weather there is okay for gardening.