This is my third year having the same plants on the deck. I have two pots of lemongrass that I rooted from lemongrass that I bought at a local Asian market. I have two flower box things with basil and rosemary in them. I tried cilantro in one and it did okay for about three weeks but the cilantro gave out and withered and died.
This is my third year of having a flower box of petunias right outside the kitchen window on the deck. They're red petunias and this time I bought jumbo red petunias. They're taller and the flowers are bigger. They get beat down by the sun so I water them and the basil and lemongrass every day. And then when the afternoon thunderstorms come the petunias get beat down by the rain and the blooms look terrible for a day and then they start blooming again and they look beautiful.
I have a grapevine in a pot that I started four five years ago now. I was so excited to try to grow a grapevine. I thought about the Bible and all the talk about grapes and grapevines and all that. The first year it did nothing. Then the second year it actually had grapes on it. They went full-term and we got nice purple grapes. When I bought the vine it didn't say muscadine, I don't know if it got cross-pollinated with muscadine grapes locally or if that's what they were to start. But I was so disappointed that they were that weird musty muscadine flavor grapes. I put it back up in its spot and I water it every day. I don't really get very many grapes off of it but it's fun to see the grape leaves and think about Greek dishes where rice is wrapped in grape leaves.
This year I'm trying a hydroponics experiment in 5-gallon buckets on the deck again. I put two cherry tomato plants in hydroponics buckets. No pumps, no fancy things, just nutrients in water and plants poking out of the side of buckets. They did well last year, we'll see how it goes this time.
I'm enjoying my plants on the deck. Fun!
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