Our container garden. We’ve got cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, basil, strawberries, peas, beans, sage and lettuce. Everything, but the strawberries, we started from seed. We plan to get broccoli going in the fall, and more lettuce.
This year we started most of our seeds in coffee filters. It was a great way to get started without messing with dirt, or purchasing starter pods. Once they’d germinated we moved them into starter pots. We made some of our starter pots out of newspaper this time. Saved money and peat by not purchasing as many peat pots.
We’re also going to vermicompost. We’ve started building our worm bin, but I’ll save those details for another post. Read the rest of this entry »
