ScoopPC11's Blog

So it is time to start another garden.

Because of the cost that I learned from last year's container garden, this year is going to be limited since I need to afford to have the baby that's going to be with us in late August/early September. Most of what I had last year were experiments, so this year it's knowing what I did well with and what was a pain last year.

Right now I have planted in containers two strawberry plants (in half barrels) and pansies. I bought two beefsteak tomato plants that I am going to plant in a few weeks, but in the meantime I'm keeping them watered and putting in the window until I'm ready to plant them. Since I'm using regular neutral potting soil from Wal-Mart, I mixed in some garden sulpher into the potting soil to make it more habitable for the tomatoes.

Since we moved, this year we'll be able to put some plants into the ground. But I've already told my husband that the beds will need to be raised by at least a foot in order to have adequate root development and drainage (as I was digging the beds I ran into huge blocks of cement underneath, possibly put there in order to create the slope that's there now). Good news is that I can have more vegetables this year because our whole front yard is a big sun spot. But I think that I will have to still test the soil since it is an artificially created area.

So, this year...we'll see what happens.