Finally the little flower buds opened today. The flowers are tiny and white on the inside, pinkish on the outside. Mine has five petals…. I was researching to see what I need to do to get these little flowers to produce fruit and it appears I need to add Epsom salt and water lots. I…
Category: Finger Lime
Fingerlime miracle!
I went to a talk by Fox Farm about their container gardening products. They have this amazing potting mix that could revive sad looking plants. The rep asked if we had any sad looking plants with only one miserable leaf left and I started thinking of all the plants I had and I could only…
Other Container plants update :) Fruits and Veggies
Busy life means I only have time to post all my pictures. Enjoy!
Fingerlime – speedy growth!
Only last week these were just little nubbies barely detectable and now check them out! They are whole entities by themselves!
Fingerlime – New Growth!
Finally my sad little fingerlime tree is doing something besides losing leaves. It started dropping a few leaves a couple of months ago so I repotted it to a terracotta pot as I was probably getting too wet in a plastic one. It still dropped more leaves but check these little babies out. I’m so…
Other things growing in Containers – incl. Finger lime and Lemons
Since I like to take a lot of pictures, heres a big jumble of all the plants I am growing in containers at the moment. Fingerlimes – I have had this plant for a while now and it has done absolutely nothing. Actually it started dropping a few of the shiny green leaves. This is…
Winci’s Winter Garden Updates
Just discovered how to do slideshows. Much more efficient with space when I have so many pictures. Currently, this is what is happening in my garden including updates on container Asparagus, winter tomatoes, funny looking Romanesco Broccoli heads, sprouting broccoli (Italian; broccoli di cicco) growing in container, ginger, and other bits.
2010 Year of Fruit trees pt 1 – Australian Finger limes
I have been playing around with growing different kinds of vegetables for a few years now and recently decided to purchase a finger lime tree from eBay. Mainly for novelty value as finger limes look like the craziest citrus around and eBay is a good way of getting hold of uncommon seeds and plants. This…
Winci's urban food garden experiment! 