Everything’s planted, caged, got its water hose set, and mulched with straw!
Volunteer rattail radishes. I knew I didn’t get them all picked last year, I didn’t realize how many I didn’t get picked. Nice to know they’ll reseed in my climate though.
Volunteer potatoes. I guess there were more surviving potatoes than I realized!
Black Pearl peppers, seeds given to me by a friend of mine.
Black Plum tomato. Still my favorite tomato. Mostly because of the flavor, but also for the reason shown in the picture above. Thats a two-foot tall seedling, standing happily on its own. They barely need caging till they’re closer to 4ft tall.
That’s a nice set up Ruth! I see the tires 🙂 What are those silver containers? I’m not a mulcher…mind you, this will be my first container garden. Why do you put hay over the dirt? Just curious how that works for you.
The silver containers are stock tanks, and if I could afford it I’d do the entire garden in them, cause they’re so much easier to work with.
I didn’t used to be a mulcher, but mulch of any kind helps hold moisture in, helps slow down weeds, etc. Last year I added the drip system to help water, and the straw helps keep the hoses from heating up too.
here’s a quick explanation of how the stock tanks are set up: https://smartdogs.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/how-i-spent-my-spring/
Very cool! Thanks for the link. 🙂
Welcome!
Interesting about the stock tanks. I bought one of those very expensive planter boxes last year (on sale), and it is based on the same idea, this is just on a much grander scale. Thanks for posting the link! I can’t wait to see how your garden grows!
The concept works very well IMO!
Hmm, I want to relocate my current raised beds and am not happy with how they look (wood sides on top of concrete blocks). I could go for the stock tanks though. Heck, I could paint them if I wanted to. Maybe even be able to find an old one or two on CL for cheap. However, this being my 2nd year without a vegetable garden (too busy to take care of it), I’ll have to file that away in the back of my mind – where it will get lost :()
Start keeping an eye out for them now, At least here they’re hard to find used, at least in a size thats useable!