I live in an apartment, so I don't have a yard to put an actual garden. But I do have a sort of window garden going on. Currently I have the following: 5 apple saplings, 3 potato plants, 1 mint plant, 1 pot of basil plants, 1 kale, 1 pot of green onions, 1 pineapple, 1 Christmas cactus, 1 aloe vera.
I started the apples from seed last spring. They spent the year in 8" pots, but this winter I moved them to 5 gallon buckets. I hope that will give them room to grow for a while longer. One thing I am concerned about is that since the trees are inside, they didn't really get the full winter experience. They lost a bunch of their leaves, which I hope is them being dormant for the winter and not them just being dead. Spring will tell...
I forgot to water the mint plant one week last month and then noticed that it had completely dried up and died. I gave it a bunch of water and now two weeks later it looks like I have several new leaves starting. I've always heard that it is a very hearty plant, so I'm glad that it's bouncing back.
The green onions, pineapple, and kale we grew from leftovers of food we bought at the grocery store. The green onions are in a pot suspended over water, and I trained their roots to reach down into the water. They seem to really like it that way. They never get thirsty but they also aren't drowning. I think it is actually pretty similar to how root systems work outside, so I might try to repeat it for some of my other plants. We'll see.
I'm currently trying to sprout a ginger plant from a chunk of ginger root we had sitting in our fridge. I attempted to do it last year, but the ginger just rotted. Maybe this year I will have better luck.
Anyway, that is my garden. I hope to move some of the pots outside once it starts to warm up.
-- Wayne
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