In the past, I've dealt with various issues with my garden. There have been worms of various colors and sizes, beetles, fungus, and on and on. This spring, the garden all went in pots. I've had my herbs in pots for years, in order to confine them to a certain space. Last fall we tried a few tomato plants in pots and they did very well, so we thought it would be great to expand the success.
Some herbs like basil and sage, had to be replanted, but I added cilantro and salad burnet. Cilantro is an ingredient in a new favorite recipe and I hate buying such a huge amount at the store, and then not using half of it. Salad burnet was introduced to me by my cousin recently. It's a more dainty plant than parsley, and tastes like cucumber; it's wonderful!
My thyme, rosemary, parsley, sweet marjoram and oregano survived the hard winter beautifully, and the mint has come back more beautiful than ever.
Tomatoes are in pots with green and red onions, bell pepper plants and collard greens. It's like furnishing a NYC apartment trying to get everything you need moved in the space! Kentucky Wonder pole beans have a tomato cage in the pot, so they will have a place to climb soon. Watermelon radishes are new to me; they grow to 4" in diameter and are white on the outside and red on the inside! I'll post pictures of those later.
All the soil is organic, various types of compost, and since everything is in pots and requires more fertilizer, I am giving everything a dose of something every Saturday; epsom salts (for magnesium and sulfur), bone meal ( for phosphorus), or fish emulsion (for nitrogen).
I'm putting my experiment out there for all to see the good and the bad, and we'll all learn, hopefully!
Let me know how your garden grows!