My Experience With Growing an Organic Container Garden: Update

I have not been doing the greatest job with my plants. I went on several vacations this summer and we moved and the plants suffered from all of it. My son did a great job while I was away mostly, but when I came back from my trips I had so much work to catch up on that I neglected the plants a lot. I usually managed to water them most days, but didn't keep up well with fertilizing and removing leaves with leaf miner.

My tomato plants went weeks where they should have been staked to keep them from falling over, but I wanted my husband to help with that and he was so busy with the move that it didn't happen until they showed signs of not being healthy because if it, like lots of dead branches and very little tomatoes sprouting.  The cucumber and the zuchini plants didn't make it at all. They were basically gone from fungus before the move. I had several zuchinni sprout but not one made it.

I had one beefsteak tomato that got to about two inches in diameter, but my dog ate that and I haven't had another even sprout since. I have actually eaten two cherry tomatoes and they were really small. They were delicious though. I keep catching my dogs sniffing around and they are eating some of the tomatoes while they are still green.

I got a whole bunch of basil and followed directions I got on line to freeze it. I went to use it last week and realized it must have gotten a little defrosted while moving and was all iced up and looked dried out. I did manage to get a couple of leaves off one of the plants and used it for a recipe that came out delicious. The chives had been looking really good, but I had a really hectic week and weekend and neglected the plants once again and the chives have wilted and some turned yellow.

I do have several peppers growing and despite the fungus issue I will be writing about, I am optimistic that I could end up with some decent ones. They look good so far and they are up on a table where my dogs can't easily get to them.

The parsley may be okay I need to take the time and trim it up, overall that it looks healthy.

So the jury is still out on whether or not this was worthwhile.