I have had very small luck with gardening in my adult life. But!!! At the beginning of November, Uncle Brandon and Aunt Mindy installed this awesome garden in our backyard. It is heavy plastic bags with holes for drainage, filled with sand and a top layer of soil and mulch. There is a small sprinkler in each bag that is hooked up to our hose with an automatic timer which waters the garden 4 times a day for 1 minute each time. Once the plants start growing, we have a nutrient spray that we spray on the leaves once every two weeks. We planted seeds and waited. This is right after installing and planting. The sprinklers are on.
Here are the radishes coming up a couple of weeks later!
And now look at it! We have had a couple of sub-freezing weeks when I had to cover it with sheets, but the plants survived and the garden is starting to really take off! All of this was started with seeds! We have planted radishes, carrots, peas, spinach, lettuce, cabbage, beans, cilantro, thyme, basil, chives, dill, marigolds and zinnias. Some are further along, obviously than others. We also have planted tomato, squash, cantaloupe, peppers and more herb seeds in little peat pods that we will transplant into the garden soon.
Just a few days ago we harvested the bigger spinach leaves in the lower 4 corner bags. In the 3rd to the right bottom bag is our cabbage.
This bag has several things growing. At the top is a pole bean and most of the greens are cilantro. There are also dill and flowers growing.
These peas took off! I harvested about 7 pea pods today. Can you see some of them? Me and Mindy are super excited about this. I will probably do more posts as we keep going.
Here are the radishes coming up a couple of weeks later!
And now look at it! We have had a couple of sub-freezing weeks when I had to cover it with sheets, but the plants survived and the garden is starting to really take off! All of this was started with seeds! We have planted radishes, carrots, peas, spinach, lettuce, cabbage, beans, cilantro, thyme, basil, chives, dill, marigolds and zinnias. Some are further along, obviously than others. We also have planted tomato, squash, cantaloupe, peppers and more herb seeds in little peat pods that we will transplant into the garden soon.
Just a few days ago we harvested the bigger spinach leaves in the lower 4 corner bags. In the 3rd to the right bottom bag is our cabbage.
This bag has several things growing. At the top is a pole bean and most of the greens are cilantro. There are also dill and flowers growing.
These peas took off! I harvested about 7 pea pods today. Can you see some of them? Me and Mindy are super excited about this. I will probably do more posts as we keep going.
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Yeah! for our garden!
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