I miss my garden - these days I only have a cramped urban balcony, but soon I will leave that behind.
One thing I did was to create a miniature bonsai garden that winters over (New York area) in a New England climate.
I started with a Home Depot potted Juniper (ground hugging variety) and felt through a bunch of them at the store until I found one with a nice thick, hidden ‘trunk’.
Then I trimmed it all up, found some stern moss and sphagnum moss, a bit of small succulents for the edges and voila... an expensive looking, yet very cheap bonsai - everything came from Home Cheapo!
‘Home Cheapo’ LOL!
Sounds like a great winter project. A gal I used to work with was into Bonsai, and she had made some stunning creations through the year.
you can do upside down hanging tomato (Topsy Turvey i think it is? We;ve doen htem and they work pretty good-) and bucket potatoes and of course bucket tomatoes, chili pepper etc- they take up only a very small space, easy to maintain, and taste good around mid summer-
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LOL good one-