Planting a suburb garden
Comments (2) Welp, I’m a gardener now. I have a garden. Don’t mean to brag, but man did I work hard on it! Remember this area? And that box I picked up for free on Craigslist?
I painted it, along with a few scrap wood boxes Haus made for me (we enlisted the neighbors to help move the big box into the backyard)…
Then I drilled 1/4″ holes in the bottom for drainage and stapled black weather guard to the bottom of the scrap wood boxes (I heart power tools)…
I put a 1/2″ of peat rock in the bottom of each box and then mixed 1/3 assorted compost, 1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 peat moss (only place I could find Vermiculite in Denver was the American Clay Works and Supply Company. $20 for that huge bag.) …
In the last step, I filled all of the boxes about 8-10 inches full of my soil and planted! Here’s my main square foot garden with cucumbers (in the milk jug “hot caps”), herbs, lettuce, beets, carrots, and marigolds in the corners:
Craigslist box
In the scrap boxes I planted winter and summer squash with a marigold border (on the left), and tomatoes with a basil border (on the right):
I used old milk jugs without caps and bottoms cut off to make hot caps for the tomato and cucumber transplants. I didn’t think they would survive the current Colorado night temperatures or wind without them. As soon as summer really hits around here, I’ll phase them out. Next time I’ll post about my transplant mistakes and tomato cage discovery (Did you notice the cages are upside down?).
Please post tips for me if you have them. I’ve spent $50 on seeds/transplants and $80 on soil and Hubby Haus is kinda hoping to see a return on the investment. Your gardening secrets would help! Happy gardening, friends!
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