ChocoTaco369

Just a little update. I am happy to say the banana has broken the 1 foot mark in height. It's also developing nice shades of red around some of the leaves - hopefully that is typical for a Dwarf Orinoco and I did, in fact, get what I paid for.



The garden is in full swing. It pays huge dividends to get an early start with your seedlings and blanket everything as necessary at night. It's a pain while you're doing it, but I've been producing heirloom tomatoes for three weeks now and peppers for a month. Most people in my area are just beginning peppers and have only green tomatoes.

Every day I get half a strainer full of things. Not bad for a little roof deck. This is truly the most wonderful time of the year.






I would also strongly recommend vertical trellising of cucumbers. This little rig I built out of stakes and chicken wire is outstanding. It would have been impossible to grow on a deck any other way, and cucumbers that sprawl on the ground love to rot - not to mention the diseases the plants get. It makes finding fruit super easy.