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Co-habitation.... then you know after a few years if you can marry them!

Lawns are over rated. Never had one growing up, don't maintain one back home, and don't plan on keeping one in the future. I mean, you can't eat a lawn.

Pictures for you all. "Please remove all personal items from the balconys." Move them to where may I ask? They said for now, If I could push them as close to the wall as possible..... I did that. I do enjoy fishing! The hardest part about fishing is that it's like a 2 hour minimum...

Thanks everyone. I am trying to make near invisible... but did talk with the operations manager for the project and the guy is nice. We'll see what we can do about the plants on the balcony. I've moved everything in as far as I could for the first stage of surveying. Oh, and I'm getting a...

I forgot to thank everyone for their support. LOL. They have and with HP's issues, lots of places around! OSU has just hired like over 100 professors to fill the empty shoes though and for some reason rent and all associated things just getting more expensive. I might just put them around our...

I hate cities, I hate neighbors, I hate compact living... I only live in this concrete box because it's cheap! One of my goals is to not get into debt. And with one year left, I'm proud to be able to be well on my way of making it out with a PhD with zero debt and even some savings! I'd so be...

This is what I do every year: The flippin' greenest balcony in sterile ville that makes the landscaping company look bad. I get 20-30lbs of veggies off that mass planting of a NORTH balcony! But not this year. The construction lawsuit has settled and they are starting repairs. We will be...

I didn't actually plant it on purpose. As a kid I tried to grow catnip inside.... it never worked... so the seeds went outside in the compost. To this very day, to be darned, those pesky cat nip plants are a total plague. EVERYWHERE... not even the cats notice them anymore.

That's because near the end of the "season", the temps are ideal for tomato growth. LOL The whole two weeks of summer.

Oh, don't be discouraged! A mother plant will pump out runners every year to replace themselves with!

Hey! Give us our weather back. You can have our past few days in the 80's. And that bright light in the sky. LOL

I must be the odd one out... or the consistent day night temps between 30-60 for like at least 4 months of the year may help, but the bloomsdale long standing seems to work for me. I've put them in buckets as starts, begining anywhere between october and may. They do plenty of freeze thaws...

It's so wrinkly it reminds me of the ugli citrus!

I did that one year. Then expanded the next... this year I only grew for myself since after I accounted for electricity and driving to pick up spots (live in an apartment), my time was beginning to be free... and as a working student, it became overwhelming. I ran my lighting on 16 hour day...

Good luck with the plants. Nothing that bad here, but a wind blew through and any plants on the railing commited suscide at our apartment and fell to the neighbors below. They must hate us.... or me. LOL As for cool weather, we had two days of summer heat in the 80's last weekend, lots of...

I might be able to rival you with my "garden" at the apartment I stay at for school. LOL It consists of about 14 4-gallon frosting buckets from safeway, and maybe a dozen smaller pots on the ledge.

Ah, didn't think about the hybrid tomato thing. That would be labor intensive. What a steal on starts! There was a 50% off sale on 5 inch tall tomato plants and they were 1.75 EACH!

It's always exciting to eat things you grew! I just had a salad using lettuice grown on the balcony of our box.

I always thought that mass produced seeds were just mass collected, mass dired, mass tested/sorted, packaged and sold. If not sold, re-tested/re-sorted, repackaged and sold later if they met some minimum germination rate? That said, I have found that like most things, you get what you pay for...

I grow snow peas... so if you have that kind, you can eat the snow pea shoots yourself in stirfry.