6 hours?? lol
My plants are on the windowsill and are lucky to get 20 minutes of light a day. I face west, I'm on the first floor, and in the bottom of the U of a U shaped building. The building across the street blocks the early morning sun and the south side of the U blocks the afternoon sun.
My apartment has been described as a dungeon. And while that can be fun in some ways
it's not the best for growing things. And barring any strange financial happenings, I'm likely to be here for another 3.5-4 years while I finish school.
I refuse to give up on my little green things though. I've got a lavender, a sage and a mint to replace the recently deceased.
Invest in plant lights. They'll make up for the dungeon atmosphere and give your plants the light they need.
Well a flash flood knocked over half my corn. Lucky for me I have a very sweet MIL who went out and stood them all up for me. They are still doing fine and are tasseling which means the ears are starting to grow.
My potatoes are growing like mad. The first crop had failed to pop up so I went tilled it up and replanted so now I have thirty, I kid you not, thirty potato plants growing, three of them already have blossoms. We think the tilling action brought them closer to the surface and gave them a boost. I have three little beets growing and shock of all shock a little tiny lettuce plant finally decided to show up. After two months, I have a lettuce plant. Who knew! My squash are doing comparatively well though one has been sacrificed to the squash bugs and two more are looking iffy. We had to dump insecticide on them. I'm crossing my fingers to see if they come back, the one has two nice pumpkins growing on it and I'd like them to actually mature.
I have peppers. I bought two sections of bell peppers and somehow ended up with one jalapeño. How do you figure that? The bells are doing nice as well, but a jalapeño? It has three little peppers on it and you do not touch that thing, that's for sure!
My broccoli is done for the year and my watermelon plant, my sole survivor, is trying to decide whether or not to do anything. My strawberries the last two hold outs died in the flash flood. They fought the good fight. I'm going to plant the rest of my carrot seeds this week and see if I have any more luck with carrots. Now that my MIL's carrots are coming up I'm crossing my fingers that I'll be able to grow carrots too.
She gave me a few pounds of peas, lettuce, beets, and I harvested a few pounds of baby crooknecks and baby zucchini. It's been so nice to eat things fresh out of the garden.
She has lent me her dehydrator as well so I've been dehydrating onions and peppers and chives and cucumber chips and my house is smelling amazing. Next on the list are sun-dried tomatoes and then apple chips, nectarines, peaches, and plums. This makes me really want my own dehydrator.