container plants

I haven't gardened in a long time, and now that it's spring, I've decided that its time to start the plants out and grow my own food. I used to volunteer for the Food Not Bombs community garden, which helped to grow fresh produce for our weekly soup kitchens. That was really fun, except it wasn't so great that I'd have to get up at 7 in the morning to water the plants before biking to work. I used to also volunteer for the U of T equity gardeners, except sometimes that whole thing became too political, and although food IS political, sometimes you just want to eat.


I recently purchased an arugula plant and an heirloom variety of tomato called "pineapple". I've had luck growing conventional tomatoes out of containers. In fact, I've grown a mini plum tomato plant out of a margarine container and it fruited many times over. Tomatoes are great for that. But the heirloom varieties - they make me nervous. The arugula apparently likes the shade.

Since I've started work now, I wasn't able to do the potting in the sun, so it was all done in my pantry in the evening. Oh well. I tamped down the soil at the bottom of the pot to prevent bugs from getting in. I then put out the seedling, loosened up the roots, added potting soil, pressed down the roots, and watered.

Oh yes, and I bought my potting soil from wholefoods. I feel like such sell out!