Progression of the deck garden - Sep & Oct 2009

#1 ◱ 8 Sep 2009 We build our first four raisers for our new deck garden.

#2 ◱ We will put the pots on the raisers. Hopefully this will allow more air circulation for drying.

#3 ◱ When the planter boxes were down on the ground the chickens would get into them and dig them up. Now I have other challenges. :-)

#4 ◱ You can see that in a little over a month our garden has changed quite a bit.

#5 ◱ It is actually starting to look like a garden. :-)

#6 ◱ I bought a dragon fruit at the store and planted some of it's seeds. It has been growing for several months . It is very slow growing, but cool.

#7 ◱ These are three cucumber plants, Kale, and chives seeds (2 types.)

#8 ◱ We have eaten some of the lettuce and about 3 cherry tomatoes. :-)

#9 ◱ Eggplant & Okra

#10 ◱ Four peppers: Sweet Banana, Super Chili, Purple, and Bell Boy. We'll see how crowded they get.

#11 ◱ Strawberries

#12 ◱ Don was impressed with Mika, the cat, also.

#13 ◱ She is on lettuce seeds. I would say that they are well tampted down. We'll see if they grow. :-)

#14 ◱ Oct 17th we made four new raisers and planted 10 new pots, which include sweet potatoes, rice, wheat, mixed lettuce, and more tomatoes.

#15 ◱ Another view of the front deck.

#16 ◱ Kami came to visit Mika.

#17 ◱ I guess she doesn't want to play. :-(

#18 ◱ Here's a bag of soil that Lois is using, and you can see the hose and faucet to make watering easier.

#19 ◱ The rice said to put six inches of soil, then two inches of water, then the seed. The seeds will sink down to the soil. Hum... The "soil" floats. Also the pot I tried first leaked out water, so now I've moved it to a larger one that doesn't leak. Obviously I don't have six inches of soil anymore. I need some sinking dirt. :-)

#20 ◱ A harvest from our garden.

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