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I can't afford land at all. >w> I just lost my job so I can't afford much of anything. ):

Hi! I do some apartment gardening too. Right now I have a south facing apartment with a balcony, and growing veggies in pots is pretty easy. I have grown things like green onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, leaf lettuce, carrots, and various herbs for cooking. I think you can grow cucumbers too, I might try a trellis for that though if I do it. Here is also some good info on growing fruit in pots too.

How to Grow A Balcony Garden

How to Grow Fruit Trees in Containers -- though this I have not tried yet.

How to Save Vegetable Seeds

Hope that helps.

the upside down bucket is genius! i might build some of those to hang from the eves of the house even!

Perhaps you can ask the land lord if you could use the roof top for a small garden.

You can definitely grow a cucumber plant indoors, the question is whether or not it will give you cucumbers razz

I started one in my last apartment amidst snowstorms (February in Ottawa, lol), put it under a simple light bulb for the first month of it's life because the window area was too cold for it to survive, and then put it 2 feet away from a window that NEVER got direct sunlight, only ambient light since we never saw the sun ever.

In 2-3 months, it was 3 feet long, trailing up the shelving thing I had cleared for that purpose, and attaching itself to the wall trying to climb it too! Though I must say, now that I have a month-old outdoor cucumber, it was a very weak plant comparatively. The stem was much thinner than the ones I have outdoors, and the leaves were very small until the plant grew larger.


What you can plant while living in an apartment really just depends on your light situation, and how many containers you can fit in the light smile
I've got a small (average-to-small) balcony that gets enough sun to please any plant, so I have tons growing. I have 2 pea plants for personal use, 6 more starters that I am currently trying to sell to offset my own costs, a smallish strawberry plant (first strawberry was today!), a container with 8 (was 9, one didn't work out) lettuces in it that I will cut and use before they get anywhere near "big" so they all fit in their 10"x8" container, at least a half dozen tomato plants slowly being put into their bigger containers (smaller than recommended containers, hoping they will work anyways), a couple Bell and Cayenne peppers, 2 cucumber plants (1 in a juice jug, lol emergency happened, needed a quick pot for it), a bowl with wheatgrass for my kitties, a mixed flower container that isn't doing much yet, some "found outside" seeds in tin cans, and a geranium because I needed SOMETHING that was already doing it's job.

Oh, and a small pot seriously FILLED with grocery store Bell Pepper seeds that are apparently infected with tiny worms that try to enter my body through my skin if I touch them. Probably trash.

And again, that's an average to small balcony. I had to put a plastic table out there to hold them that I can also put plants under, but it's do-able.


Oh, RIGHT, and some green onions I almost forgot lol.
Edit: Oh yeah, 5 beets and a couple carrots I will have to pick while they are small, since I didn't have a container deep enough for them to grow fully in but planted them anyways.

Oh, I know I'm pretty late for the party, but I'm new to this guild, and I thought this would be an appropriate place to post this.

I'm starting my first garden this year. I'm a complete n00b at gardening, but luckily, my partner is a little smarter than me with plants. We were inspired to grow in our Jersey City apartment after watching this: http://www.ted.com/talks/britta_riley_a_garden_in_my_apartment.html

Basically, its a hydroponic window garden you can build in your apartment. The system is public domain and there's a whole worldwide network of gardeners and engineers who have been perfecting the system for years. Its pretty amazing what you can grow.

you just crush em and toss em in 3nodding doesnt matter what direction.