I miss
gardening. In a number of places we lived I grew large
productive gardens. Here in western
Maine our home now is surrounded by trees and there is no place in the yard
with enough sun to consider planting a garden.
I have successfully
planted flowers in containers before, so this year I decided I would try vegetables
in a container. I took a large empty
cat litter container, drilled holes in the bottom and filled it with potting
soil from Walmart. I planted two cherry
tomato plants and one cucumber plant – again from Walmart. I water then daily and every four weeks
water with Miracle Grow.
Now I have
two eight-foot tomato plants, and a cucumber plant that is fixing to climb my
porch. Today we harvested our first
cucumber and we seem to be about a week away from harvesting tomatoes.
Next year I
plan to expand the garden – more containers.
Planting in containers requires more attention than an actual garden –
regular daily watering and feeding
I have a pumpkin
plant by the stone wall in front of the house that seems to be thriving, but
the deer keep eating the buds off. I
have some mint growing by the wall and this evening I am going to harvest some
of the mint plants and put them around the pumpkin buds – don’t know if this
will keep the dear away, but it seems the deer are avoiding the mint.
Locally
grown tomatoes and cucumbers are expensive at the farmers market. If I get the harvest I expect I will more
than pay for the plants and materials invested – and we are eating our
own.
the Ol’Buzzard
