*** Quoting Maurice Kinal from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> Easy to do in containers.  You'll need one thing for that which ones 
 CS> in the backyard dont really need.  Get a good plant food specific to 
 CS> tomatoes and use it.

MK> Will do.  Also find a better spot for it then where it currently sits
MK> as it is a tad shadey where I have it now.  Still in the process of fi

Thats ok.  Cherry Tomatoes do just fine as long as they get a little full
sun ¨for 3 hours a day.  Thats why they do well on porch gardens.  Bter
than most ¨other tomato types in fact.  The next best is the fleshy, not
very watery, ¨italian types.  Oddly the more watery the type is, the more
it seems to require ¨full sun in my experience and the harder it is to
garden them on a porch.

Here's a really easy one.  If you like green onion tops, next time chop the
¨bulbs off when you get home and plant them (save the greens for use).  You
dont ¨have to get more than a normal few sprigs but get a long planter just
for them ¨and add to it.  Planter should be a 5 inch deep longish one (I
used on that was ¨almost 3 feet long, plastic or wood depending on what i
had at the time).  I ¨lined the bottom with old bluejeans that had expired
usefulness to allow the ¨holes to still drip, but not get dirt all over the
porch everytime i watered ¨the planter.  The bulbs will not only provide
another crop, but will continue ¨to do so seemingly forever (they winter
over and come up next year).

Mint is also easy.  The only care there is to not drop any clippings in the
¨grass below as they will try to take over the grass and sometimes, they
win ¨that battle .

                                       xxcarol

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