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Oh...this question makes me a little sad. I'm about to move from a place that had an honest-to-goodness garden (it was small-- we called it the yardette) to a place without even a balcony. I don't know how I'm going to handle it.

In our old place, I grew thyme, chives, some basil, and a few varieties of mint. I also had a whole bunch of lilies of the valley, a variety of hostas, soloman's seal, vinca, and one very pretty iris.

I have a nice deck and I grow vegetables and fruits for the first time: eggplant, herbs (basilics, mint, thyme), tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, red pepper, zucchini, beets, salads, broccoli, melon, lemon, rasperry, blueberry, strawberry. This is so exciting!

i have an indoor windowsill where i have one basil plant, a jade, and some succulents. i long for an honest-to-goodness garden, or even just a balcony where i can do some container gardening. oh well, a girl can dream...

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Like v in Boston, this makes me a little sad, too. We used to have a house in the exurbs with a huge garden--rhubarb, horseradish, tomatoes, strawberries, zucchini, peppers, herbs, a little bit of everything. We have a decent balcony now on our condo, but it is so shady I only have containers of shade loving flowers. We do belong to a CSA and can do some pick your own stuff but I really miss my garden.

Right now, I have nothing, but I'm planning on picking up a few herbs in Union Square this week. We'll see how it works.

My husband and I are so terrible at keeping plants alive. We once killed a cactus!

living room windowsill...i've got basil and cilantro, and they're kinda doing ok. i dunno. things don't thrive around me.

really for real dirt. but it's bad dirt and needs lots of supplementation, which is $$$ (really, why is all the free compost and mulch way up in san fran?). kinda takes off the glow of, "dirt! i have dirt!"

I finally have my very first garden, dirt in the ground. I was so excited I couldn't choose what to grow. So, I started with peas, basil, cilantro, bell peppers, tomatoes, carrots, watermelon, pumpkin, cucumbers and mystery plants that turned out to be sunflowers! It seems I threw things in and didn't really 'plan' the arrangement, but I am learning. At least the peas got to grow up along the wall and the cilantro and chives are growing up in front. We won't talk about the sunflowers, they appeared out of nowhere.

I'm doing a veggie container garden on the deck for the first time. My guide is "The Bountiful Container" and it has been a very easy to use reference and planning tool.

If anyone has info on SF gardening by neighborhood (North Beach/Telegraph Hill) I'd love a link or some plain ol' good advice.

lindsey kathlene,
I'm in the exact same situation: real dirt, but really crummy dirt. And very little sunlight too. Plus my general inability to keep green things alive. I'm wondering if I should even bother trying to lug compost into the garden...

I overhauled a 1/4 of my garden plot (over 500 sqft total) to make a 10' x 15' garden patch.
We planted so much yesterday and I've got the bilstering sunburn to prove it. First May long weekend in Alberta where it hasn't rained like crazy!
Here's the list:
Corn, sugar snap peas, green beans, potatoes (red and fingerling), radish, red bell peppers, spinach, romaine lettuce, mixed salad greens, jalapenos, caribbean red hots, hungarian yellow wax peppers(also hot), yellow bell peppers, zucchini, Lemon Boy tomatoes, English Thyme, Rosemary, Basil, Italian Parsley, Chives, Dill weed, and sunflowers.

It's going to be a fun summer!! I can't wait for my seeds to pop up!

I have a little container garden that I started out on my building's communal back porch / fire escape. It's been unseasonably cold in Chicago so I'm a little worried that my seedlings are going to die this week.

I have real dirt, but I have containers for my actual food growing. Partly because it is easier, partly because the soil is better, and partly because I share the little yard with my dog who likes to pee on small plants.