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I also have found that working in nature, on farms or with horses is very theraputic for me. I really enjoy my pets and gardens.

My step-father who is 93, fell and broke his hip and had surgery on Thanksgiving. He is an avid gardener, and he wants to try gardening in straw bales so I'm going to be helping him do that. I'm really excited to try that. I will make my vegetable garden smaller so that I can help him. Has anyone done this?
 
Hey guys, I'm wondering about where you store your gardening tools? Normally I'd say "Duh, the shed!" or "Duh, the garage!" However, I live in a third floor apartment with neither of these options, and so I am left with trying to figure out how to find a designated place for my gardening tools. Also, an update, my peace lily and my snake plant are doing swimmingly. :)
 
I could get benches with storage, it is an option. Honestly I don't have a lot. I have a watering can, a couple of pots I'm not using, a spade, and some dirt.
 
I've seen some folks re-purpose old mailboxes to store their hand tools and such in. I keep mine in a rather large old wooden basket with a handle that I use to forage/harvest with. The potting soil gets dumped into a bucket with a lid (an old kitty litter bucket serves this purpose well), or into the wheelbarrow, depending on what and how much we're planting, so I can re-pot stuff over top of it without getting dirt everywhere.
 
I bought a tomato plant in a pretty big pot with a cage over it which was attached to the pot, so I figured that the pot was large enough to grow that plant in. NOT! A neighbor and I had to re-pot it in a much larger pot. In fact, it became (in his words) root bound and so we had to remove quite a lot of dead roots from the edges of the root system, and surround the remaining roots with a lot of pre-fertilized soil. Now it wants water like twice a day, but it is doing a lot o better. Before we re-potted it, it had been turning yellow. Now it is a nice healthy green color. Tomatoes? Yup. It has about a half dozen of those on its vines so far too, green ones as yet.
 
I miss my lemon trees! They made my apartment smell sooooooo good, and then -of course- lemons for dayz :sneaky: Not that I put lemon on absofreakinglutely everything, or anything <cough>. :whistling: One 4-5yo tree right in front of every window (I didn’t have a lot of windows, converted factory loft, three 5m tall x1m wide cathedral windows in brick).

I’ve only ever grown passion fruit vines in the tropics and just trailed them along anywhere I’d put jasmine or bougainvillea (fences, terraces, trellises, etc.) // ie full sun & keeps them up off the ground & keeps them occupied climbing things you want them to climb on, instead of everything you have to whack them away from. Indoors (not in the tropics) I’d think a (large) sunny bathroom would be best, for the humidity. Outdoors somewhere vines love to climb, but still in reach without a ladder. A sturdy bean-pyramid would also do nice. They’d probably do well on a wine-grape thingmy, too. (Technical term, that). Or a clothes line. You get the drift ;) In the tropics they tend to go gangbusters and attempt to take over the world. I’ve had a few lighter weight trellises just give up ...and the huge heavy fruit laden vine falls... and starts snaking across the garden overnight (I think it was heading for the highway). Cooler climate might be a bit challenging the other way.

One thing to note... they hate nitrogen. It will keep hem in a vegetative cycle for durn near forever, instead of a fruiting cycle. So if you’ve got any soil that “should” be perfect for tomatoes, but the tom’s hate it? That’s almost always a nitrogen deficiency. Passion fruit will Loooooove it. Plant those 2 things far apart from each other. And avoid commercial fertilisers like MiracleGro which are nitrogen based :wtf:
 
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