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    Posted April 20, 2012 by
    CarrieKro
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    Middletown, Connecticut
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    From garden to table

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    Balcony Vegetable Gardening

    By CarrieKro  |  Posted April 20, 2012  |  Middletown, Connecticut
     

    CNN PRODUCER NOTE     CarrieKro, 43, has been gardening since she was in high school and says the method has always been dependent on where she lived. Now living in a second floor condominium, container gardening is her mode of choice. She says she normally plants a combination of seeds and seedlings; she went with lettuce seedlings and plans to start cucumbers from seeds this weekend.
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    This is a picture of “salad bowl lettuce” growing on my condo balcony.

    I plan on growing tomatoes (beefsteak and cherry), cucumbers, peppers, and many types of herbs this year all in a very small space in containers. I have had great success in the past. Because the plants are in containers I do not need to do any weeding. As they are located right in front of my front door (literally right in front) watering is fairly easy.

    Nothing beats picking a fresh tomato and eating it right then and there. The ones at the store may look like a tomato but they taste nothing like ones that I have grown myself. I can’t wait for summer to get here so I can make BLTs (bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches). Yum!
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