A mother of a veggie container garden! In celebration of Mom's Day!
More garden progress! All the veggies are up and visible! We took the burlap material off when the seedlings were popping up. Where the seedlings are grown up enough, we have added the burlap again. This burlap is eco friendly and biodegradable. We use it as our container garden mulch. We talk more about the burlap in previous posts.
The burlap is also a deterrent for those $#*%^&#@!! squirrels! I put the squirrel screamer up, but the squirrels are sneaky! I think the squirrels have figured out the screamer and are creeping around where there is no detection. I've seen a bit of digging action around my squash and eggplant and I thought I had the squirrel screamer aiming toward those plants. I haven't really checked to see if the squirrel screamer is covering the radius it says it does. I'm going to go out tonight and lay on my back, squirm around those plants in question and see if the detector comes on. I'm also saving onions and spicy radishes to add to the blender and more cayenne pepper so if I have to spray my plants and the soil around them I"ll have my super spicy, stinky spray! The spray is good for other types of bugs that may want to munch on any of the plant leaves too! The battle is on, but thus far there is no real damage from the enemy combatants.
Check out the tubs! Full of carrots, onion, cabbage, parsley, radishes (the biggest leaves of course), lettuce and celery. The celery is still really tiny, but I thinned some the other day and it sure does smell like celery! This is my first time growing celery, so we will see how that goes.
Pretty pepper plants! They are really growing!!!
My prize tomatoes have created a jungle out there! Blossoms are abound! I figure the fruit should start growing in June and we should have our first tomatoes around the end of July and beginning of August.
A container garden is not difficult to maintain. No weeds to contend with, especially if you use the burlap for mulch. Using great container soil ( you can find out what elements make great container soil in my previous blog posts and a wealth of information therein), watering every evening with a hose and wand attachment and moving your plants around as the sun shifts positions in the sky throughout the spring, summer and fall seasons will be the extent of the gardening. Oh, yeah...... there are those pesky squirrels around here I have to deal with but all in all, this is a fun experience and not too much work.
If you are ready to plant your garden, whether it be a container garden, a small plot, community garden or a small farm you can learn more about plant characteristics, companion planting, growing for seed, biointensive gardening and more on our website: www.food2gro.com
Happy Mom's Day and Happy Gardening to all!
Bruce and Jubie have grown organic vegetable gardens in the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest and near the Pantanal of the Amazon River.
The burlap is also a deterrent for those $#*%^&#@!! squirrels! I put the squirrel screamer up, but the squirrels are sneaky! I think the squirrels have figured out the screamer and are creeping around where there is no detection. I've seen a bit of digging action around my squash and eggplant and I thought I had the squirrel screamer aiming toward those plants. I haven't really checked to see if the squirrel screamer is covering the radius it says it does. I'm going to go out tonight and lay on my back, squirm around those plants in question and see if the detector comes on. I'm also saving onions and spicy radishes to add to the blender and more cayenne pepper so if I have to spray my plants and the soil around them I"ll have my super spicy, stinky spray! The spray is good for other types of bugs that may want to munch on any of the plant leaves too! The battle is on, but thus far there is no real damage from the enemy combatants.
Check out the tubs! Full of carrots, onion, cabbage, parsley, radishes (the biggest leaves of course), lettuce and celery. The celery is still really tiny, but I thinned some the other day and it sure does smell like celery! This is my first time growing celery, so we will see how that goes.
Pretty pepper plants! They are really growing!!!
My prize tomatoes have created a jungle out there! Blossoms are abound! I figure the fruit should start growing in June and we should have our first tomatoes around the end of July and beginning of August.
A container garden is not difficult to maintain. No weeds to contend with, especially if you use the burlap for mulch. Using great container soil ( you can find out what elements make great container soil in my previous blog posts and a wealth of information therein), watering every evening with a hose and wand attachment and moving your plants around as the sun shifts positions in the sky throughout the spring, summer and fall seasons will be the extent of the gardening. Oh, yeah...... there are those pesky squirrels around here I have to deal with but all in all, this is a fun experience and not too much work.
If you are ready to plant your garden, whether it be a container garden, a small plot, community garden or a small farm you can learn more about plant characteristics, companion planting, growing for seed, biointensive gardening and more on our website: www.food2gro.com
Happy Mom's Day and Happy Gardening to all!
Bruce and Jubie have grown organic vegetable gardens in the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest and near the Pantanal of the Amazon River.
Posted by Jubie at 5/11/2008 1:41 PM 
Categories: patio gardening,container gardening,small space gardening
Categories: patio gardening,container gardening,small space gardening
Just checking up on your pictures. I came home today to find a couple of my tomato plants leaning over to one side. Somehow they tomatoes on them already!
Do you use the wire supports for your plants? If so, do they rust out after a few years or should I paint them?
We just started a couple of grape plants for mothers day.
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Hi Charles,
Well let's see how those tomato plants turn out for you. The whirly hats as I call them, ( ring supports for the tomatoes) are painted with weatherproof painting. You should be able to find them in a garden store. Your plants are leaning because they need support. You want to either tie them to posts or use the whirly hats.
Grapes! Wow do you have them growing on overhead trellises? Best of luck with them. You will really have to watch the critters around grapes. Especially mice, they love them!
Thanks again for stopping by!
Good gardening!
Jubie
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I really like plants, but do not have a green thumb. I look up to the fact that you are growing tomatoes and doing it the green way. I found that it is easy to grow blueberries in a container outside. I will check out www.food2gro.com to get some pointers because I really want to get some plants and possibly a garden soon.
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Hi Betty,
Thanks so much for joining my garden. The website really does have a wealth of information. The blog shows garden progress in the "now"! The blog also has a wealth of information on previous posts! Learn and grow and teach others to learn and grow too!
Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns you might have! I'd be happy to provide tips! I'd love to hear about your garden progress too!
Keep growing!
Jubie
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