Gardening for Geeks?

selan asks: "Spring has sprung, and this year I've decided to try gardening for the first time! I'm starting with a small container garden on my balcony and am planting oregano and parsley. I was wondering if any Slashdot readers enjoy this low-tech hobby and have any advice to share with a newbie."

Comments

First thing to learn

[Chilles]

Gardens actually have usefull bugs, know them and let them be.

Organic is the way to go

[MerlynEmrys67]

Compost is your friend. You get to get rid of all of your vegitable waste (grass clippings, left over food etc.) and get back a great soil amendment.

Try to grow everything, tomatoes work well, corn if you have room for enough of it, herbs, vegitables.

You will get interesting friends at work trying to pawn off the vegitables you can't eat... bring those extra tomatoes in, let your non-enlightened friends share

It is a great life balancer, I love to sit on my ass all day at work and just think hard, go home and work my body all weekend long with my mind off.