They dont' get that big in our cooler pnw garden so I just tie them to a 4 foot stake in the ground as they grow. There are two in buckets on the porch, that are tied to a rope up to the rafters as they are growing.
I only have one cheap phal... I've had it 3 years? Maybe four. It grows one new leaf a year, and in the winter after chiling, it makes a big flower stalk with pink flowers. This year though, my birds knocked it over and broke it's flowers off. It lives in a dish of water. LOL
They said it would only take 2 months.... I figure I'll have it back start of september. That's about when anything other than leafy greens has finished up. LOL
I'll probably plant spinich and lettuice for the winter.
Good news update!
I took most things home that would fit, but just a few stayed behind. Worked with the contractors and they let me go onto the balcony to water. Not only is it the north side, it's now as far away from the sun as you can get. LOL
Let's just say, yields are pathetic, but at...
Sorry about the spraying. We don't have mosquito spray up here, but lots of road grass kill sprays. If someone asks for no spray and maintains the grass, they don't spray.
I would think if your bees got sprayed, the insecticide would kill them, however, I thought spraying for mosquitoes...
8a heat?
Must be somewhere you can grow above mentioned items. :P
Wish I had just a few hundred more heat days... as long as I have AC inside. LOL
Some day I'll have to try okra. People always talk about it. I've never seen one in person.
I just used soap to wash the sap and wax off the little buggers (apids) and keep them under control that way. Lady bugs did find us and laid lots of eggs, but then I ran out of aphids for them and I think some of the baby lady bugs starved before turning into lady bugs. I'm pretty sure that...