Which of these are easy to grow and fairly compact?
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Idea for keeping melons compact while growing.....
Comments (1)If you want to maximize space, growing your melons up a trellis and supporting them with a sling is a lot more space efficient than what you're proposing and probably less expensive too. You could certainly train a melon plant up such a contraption but you are going to have to determine where it sets a melon rather than letting the plant decide and strapping it to that point, since slinging a melon anywhere below a flat surface on one of those stands will be more difficult than slinging it on a trellis. I'd show some photos of my trellised melons from last season, but I don't have them hosted anywhere. I grew eight different kinds and all but one or two easily reached the top of my 7'6" trellises. I nipped them there or a few would have continued growing. I don't think the plant stands you are thinking about will provide enough vertical surface for most melons and you will either have a sprawling plant, which isn't going to save you much room, or you will have to be fairly diligent about controlling its growth so it doesn't get out of hand. Finally, the way you wrote your post suggests you're either expecting one melon per plant or limiting the plant to one melon, which would be an inefficient way to produce melons. Even an average producing melon will give you several from one plant, so you may and likely will be limiting your melon plant's productive potential because these planters probably won't have enough flat surfaces to rest the developing melons on....See Morewhich spinach grows big and easy?
Comments (3)There are lots of "spinach" substitutes. Malabar spinach (Basella rubra), Vegetable amaranth/Chinese spinach (Amaranthus tricolor), Ceylon spinach (Basella alba), Okinawan spinach (Gynura crepioides), New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonoides) etc. As noted noted Swiis Chard and beet greens (Beta vulgaris) can be sustituted. Mustard spinach (Brassica rapa var. komatsuna) is also used as a substitute in some situations. While no spinach (Spinacia oleracea) gets to be a big tall plant, some do better than others. Skookum, Hellcat, Teton, do pretty well for me....See Moreare all Blc hybrids easy to grow and bloom???
Comments (6)I don't agree that SLC require less light. That is a falacy. More light for any cattleya means more flowers and better growth. What you gain from SLCs is smaller growth habit. "Miniature" as some might say. Most hybrids are easy to grow than straight species under artificial light, but this isn't really all that true. The big floofy hybrids, whether they are BLC, C. LC or Pot, can be tall growing and take up a lot of space or hit the light depending how low you have the light hanging. What you want is a nice, compact growing cattleya (which means that it has short rhizomes and doesn't gallup out of the pot)....See MoreLooking for easy growing fragrant house plant...
Comments (4)My favorite fragrant house plant is a small shrub, Murraya paniculata, which has a great orange blossum fragrance and it is apt to bloom several times a year. If you have a window that gets sunlight, it is what I recomend. It would do best if you did put it out for the summer (in a semi-shaded spot) but that is true of most house plants. Do you have any idea why the jasmine did not thrive? Perhaps too much sun or too little time for it to make the adjustment to outdoor conditions? Understanding what went wrong would help alot with your next plant. Wishing you great success --- Jerry...See Morejandey1
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