Saturday, March 31, 2012

My Container Garden

After much inspiration from friends like Jessi and sites like My Square Foot Garden, I decided to start a vegetable garden this year. I drooled over Jessi's homegrown veggies all last summer and I was determined to have my own. 

Since Josh and I live in a rent house, starting a real garden is out of the question. Thats why we are trying to grow all of our vegetables in containers, aka-leftover flower pots and Lowes 5 gallon buckets. But first, Josh decided that I needed something to sit my containers on, so he built me a pretty table.
Then we stained it. This was the first thing Josh ever built on his own. I'm quite proud.

At the moment, I am trying to grow a few things indoors. If all of these seeds make it, I'm going to have a ton of extra plants to go around.

On the left: Mixed Lettuce
On the right: Mixed Basil

Cilantro

Only one little cilantro has sprouted on the bottom left. The others are still quietly sleeping.

Now for the big-boy plants: 

Orange Bell Pepper

Red Bell Pepper
 


Onions

Strawberries

Cabbage

Zucchini

Squash

Tomato

Oregano

 Parsley

And some Marigolds and Alyssums for color and pest control

When I'm home, I check these babies about every 3 hours to see if there are any new developments. Alas, no harvest yet. But hopefully in a few months I'll be out here every day to find something new. 

Make sure you come back to see how my container garden grows!

3 comments:

  1. I love this!!! Tomorrow is planting day in our house! We're starting from seeds so it's going to be a little bit of time before they start to sprout. I can't wait to see your harvest!

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  2. Had no idea Josh was the carpenter type. In fact everything I know about him goes against the quality of the table in your picture.

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  3. This is so encouraging! All these plants looks so awesome! Can't wait to see the salad you guys grow!!

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