Growing... Growing... Growing!!!

One of the most enjoyable parts of gardening is watching the garden grow!  I love seeing how my tomatoes are so much taller now than they were at my last post.  It's so enjoyable!

 Above are my cucumber and cantaloupe.  These were started as seedlings.  Below are 2 different tomatoes.  The small, barely visible is a Jelly Bean, started as a seed in this planter.  The larger is a Cherokee Purple, started from a 4" pot.

 

 Above is one of many tomato plants which is loaded with a tomatoes in various stages of readiness.  This plant is the Better Bush tomato.  Below is a pic of all of the tomatoes: Lemon Boys in the yellow buckets, Husky Red Cherry in the white bucket (close up of the ripening, barely orange tomatoes 2nd pic below!), and Better Bush in the orange.

 

 

 Peppers.  This year I have 3 pepper varieties.  4 total plants of Sweet Banana Peppers.  1 plant each of Jumbo Nacho Jalapeno and a regular Jalapeno.

 Watermelons in the above green bucket and strawberries in the below trick-or-treat buckets.  Strawberry plants are loaded with blooms and baby green strawberries!  My girls are so excited!

 And then my zucchini and eggplant.  These are also started from seedlings, so I expect they will really take off growing by the next post!

Happy Gardening!!!

Here it is!  Presenting my Bucket Garden for the Spring 2011 gardening season...

 Featuring an assortment of tomatoes, watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, peppers, basil, parsley, strawberries, lemon balm, mint, stevia, catnip, eggplant and zucchini!  There are just so many options, don't limit yourself on what to plant in your container garden!  Just add a bit of this and a bit of that... The veggies that you love the most!

  With melons, go for smaller varieties like Sugar Baby and Moon and Stars. Any 'bush' variety works great, but isn't required! The above large green bucket has my watermelons:  Sugar Baby, Moon & Stars and Malali.

 And above is my "tea garden".  The only plant really missing is the actual tea plant, "Camellia sinensis".  I'm working on that, but it might be next year before we have this one to add to the tea garden.

I also added 2 Earthboxes to my container garden this year.  I'm excited to see how they compare to my Bucket Gardening.  Consider that I enjoy watering my garden daily... I don't expect a huge difference... but time will tell!  Stay tuned and ...

Happy Gardening!!!

It's time to start planting!!!

Last year's bucket garden was such a success, that I just have to do it again!  And it is definitely time to start planting.  This year will again be about the tomatoes.  My Lemon Boy tomato was so yummy that I already have 2 plants in buckets for this year.

My girls also insisted on a nice sweet pepper in the garden this year.  Thus, we have 4 Banana Peppers in buckets and ready to grow.

And thus it begins.... :-)  Many great things yet to come!