Garden Update

I just realized that I don't have any current pictures of our upside down planters. This isn't the most recent picture but it are still more recent then some of the others!

These are tomatoes and, despite having an attack of some Very Hungry Caterpillars, they are doing great. We have only harvested a few tomatoes so far but we have tons of unripe ones growing right now.

We have also planted small eggplants, cucumbers and two kinds of peppers, all of which are growing well. Today we filled the last hanging planter with zucchini. I can't wait to see how they do!

The Garden

is looking less and less like a construction site. We are doing upside down gardening this year for some of our plants. Right now we have 4 kinds of tomatoes, 2 kinds of peppers and small white eggplants growing upside down. We have two more upside down planters (I might make one more) but I don't know what we will put in them right now. Maybe more tomatoes! I the tops of each planter I have planted herbs around the perimeter of the container and int he ones closest to the fence will have marigolds. I have been told that squirrels don't like marigolds so I am testing that theory. The raised bed will be for carrots, radishes and turnips.

We have made our upside down planters from recycled cat litter buckets that I found on freecycle.










Here is one of the tomato plants growing upside down. It is cool to watch the branches trying to grow towards the sun.










Here is part of the garden that still resembles a construction site. LOL We did get a new composter from Walmart. It isn't anything fancy but it will (hopefully) keep the dog out of it. You'd think the fence would do that. (But you would be wrong!)




Here is Drake watering our newly planted snap peas. (Well, that is what he is supposed to be watering!)










And here is Kyllian watering our newly planted cucs.

Make your own paper transplant pots

Someone posted a link to these instructions on MDC. Very cool. Wish I had seen this before I bought seed starter pots!

Here is Part 1

and

Here is Part 2

There are no words but it looks pretty easy! I can't tell what the paper is secured with but I am guessing the it isn't secured with anything. I imagine the weight of the soil holds it together just fine.

The Contruction Site (AKA: The Garden)

In theory I will be growing plants in this mess soon.