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Eke.

thanks for the compliment maxwell! i have since redesigned and added more stuff including tomatoes and cucumbers (we'll see if my labors bear fruit...heh) . maybe i'll post pics, not for the contest but for comment...

"maybe i'll post pics, not for the contest but for comment..."

BRAVE GIRL!

will anyone's garden be in bloom by June 19th? I've planted tomatoes and daisies and sunflowers and zinnias (and a few others) on my fire escape, but fear they won't be photographically impressive until August.

I also think June 19th is a bit early for this contest. If people have in ground plants they might be camera ready, but those urban gardeners lacking real yards who cart out containers every year will be behind.

i agree! any of the things i've started from seed aren't quite ready for their photo shoot yet...

i am trying to grow herbs - the basil is coming up nicely.

The cilantro seeds haven't still germinated.

any suggestions for green chillis or other herbs that will not die during the winter ?

i do not have a green thumb. this is my first try in herb gardening

Can - I recommend rosemary. It will need to come inside around Thanksgiving and stay in until the last frost, but it will smell good and you can decorate it for Christmas.

thyme is my best winter window survivor
also sage
especially with a grolight

my habanero pepper plant kept producing well past xmas,
bet other chiles could do the same

anyone seen a serrano plant for sale in NYC?

I would order serrano from Burpee online if I were you, guido.

Agree with the rest of you all - this contest is too early for people growing from seed. The few herbs and hanging plants I bought full grown for my porch look great, but the herbs from seed are *just* now sprouting.

Can we wait until late July at least?

Really. It's eke, not eek.

thanks szig, guido
-can

I have to say, all of my herbs made it on my window sill through this last winter - a first for me! Chives and mint used to be the only ones that came back, but this time the rosemary, thyme, chives, mint all came back - I had to buy new basil,of course.

Took me a minute to see what Joan meant. Yeah, she's right, it's "eke". "Eek" would be a reaction to mouse. These horizontal burned-in lines on this old SONY never-again-in-this-life-or-the-next VAIO screen made it hard to read what she meant at first.

Speaking of plants, a couple of months ago, I decided that instead of waiting until company comes and buying cut fresh gerber daisies in yellow and orange-red (the only perfect flowers for my particular kitchen) that since I saw them at Plant Shed in little pots, I would buy them, and they would last much longer. Well, they have! But since they're not really blooming at the moment, and I saw this morning, that they have them again, I bought another pair of them, and switched them out in the same clay pots, and am going to give them to a friend who loves plants more than I do, and she'll probably be patient enough to let them bloom on their own time.

It's better than throwing them out AND it's better than having them sit there being kind of counter-productive, when (for my money) they were only there because they were purty.

Doesn't quite amount to a garden, so ... I shan't be entering this contest, but kind of wanted to share that funny little compromise I struck between cut flowers and plants.

Thanks, Curtis!

Have the entries from this year been posted and I've just missed them?

I'm thinking of entering, but I am afraid this might be another contest that's out of my league. Also, is there a max on size? I live in NYC, but I have a really big yard.

I get the impression that the competition is for small-scale gardeners (container, pot & windowsill gardeners) - but is it open to people who have plots in community gardens? Just wondering...
Emily