{"id":5708,"date":"2025-12-14T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:36:54","slug":"back-porch-2025-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=5708","title":{"rendered":"Back Porch 2025 in Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Parsley and nasturtium, July 17<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
As I do every year, I kept several containers on my southwest-facing back porch. There are always herbs; this year, it was parsley (3 plants), Italian basil (2), Thai basil (2), rosemary, thyme, sage, chives and lavender. I have one large container for flowers only, which is positioned in the line of view from the kitchen door. It makes me so happy to open the door to the back porch and see flowers. I planted bulbs in this container the previous fall, and they came up nicely in April. To this pot, I later added Zinnia seedlings. I also grew radishes, arugula and lettuce (all in the spring), and Thai peppers in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Siberian squill, April 15<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Arugula (left) and radishes (right), April 22<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Radishes (to be replaced by parsley, Italian basil and nasturtium), May 6<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Arugula, May 6<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From left to right: parsley, arugula, flowers, radishes, May 6<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From left to right: flowers, radishes, lettuces, asparagus (2x), May 6<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lettuces, May 6<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Asparagus and Cosmos, June 4<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thai peppers, Thai basil and nasturtium (in the pot that had the lettuce growing earlier), June 4<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Parsley, chamomile and spilanthes, June 4<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spilanthes (planted in the pot that earlier in the spring had the arugula), July 1<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Zinnia, July 27<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mums (in the container that hosted the chamomile & spilanthes and the arugula earlier), October 5 (terrible resolution, sorry)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Parsley and pine branches (covering the flower bulbs), December 14 <\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I do every year, I kept several containers on my southwest-facing back porch. There are always herbs; this year, it was parsley (3 plants), Italian basil (2), Thai basil…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,36,31,44,30,32,53,26,29,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-gardening","category-decorating","category-flowers","category-greens","category-harvest","category-herbs","category-medicinal","category-spring","category-summer","category-vegetables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1u4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5754,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions\/5754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Parsley and nasturtium, July 17<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
As I do every year, I kept several containers on my southwest-facing back porch. There are always herbs; this year, it was parsley (3 plants), Italian basil (2), Thai basil (2), rosemary, thyme, sage, chives and lavender. I have one large container for flowers only, which is positioned in the line of view from the kitchen door. It makes me so happy to open the door to the back porch and see flowers. I planted bulbs in this container the previous fall, and they came up nicely in April. To this pot, I later added Zinnia seedlings. I also grew radishes, arugula and lettuce (all in the spring), and Thai peppers in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Siberian squill, April 15<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Arugula (left) and radishes (right), April 22<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Radishes (to be replaced by parsley, Italian basil and nasturtium), May 6<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Arugula, May 6<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From left to right: parsley, arugula, flowers, radishes, May 6<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From left to right: flowers, radishes, lettuces, asparagus (2x), May 6<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lettuces, May 6<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Asparagus and Cosmos, June 4<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thai peppers, Thai basil and nasturtium (in the pot that had the lettuce growing earlier), June 4<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Parsley, chamomile and spilanthes, June 4<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spilanthes (planted in the pot that earlier in the spring had the arugula), July 1<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Zinnia, July 27<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mums (in the container that hosted the chamomile & spilanthes and the arugula earlier), October 5 (terrible resolution, sorry)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Parsley and pine branches (covering the flower bulbs), December 14 <\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I do every year, I kept several containers on my southwest-facing back porch. There are always herbs; this year, it was parsley (3 plants), Italian basil (2), Thai basil…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,36,31,44,30,32,53,26,29,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-gardening","category-decorating","category-flowers","category-greens","category-harvest","category-herbs","category-medicinal","category-spring","category-summer","category-vegetables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1u4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5754,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions\/5754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}