The Well Done Square Foot Garden! Update

When we last left our gardening hero, he had started a Square Foot Garden! Read on to find out what happened!

Yesterday was a lot of hard work. I got a hexagon gazebo up, fixed the pool, planted clover in the front lawn, and I even managed to do some gardening!

I filled my 4 x 4 block with Mel’s mix, slapped down a nice grid, and even started to plant!

The block is filled with Mel's Mix

You can imagine the amount of work that goes into planting this block. It is not that bad, all in all, but a bit of work. I hope that it pays off in the end. I did not have enough soil, so a run to the Crappy Tire was in order!
Here it is with a grid
This is a great demonstration of using up what is available. I could have gone out and bought up some markers, cut them up, etc. Instead, I went the frugal route and used what I had on hand, an old trellis that had rotted away.
Here it is, planted with beans, cucumbers and pepper

So ambitious! I have green beans, yellow beans, cucumbers x2, and a pepper plant. I am planning on tossing in chives, then spinach, romaine, thyme, Thai basil, regular basil, carrots, potatoes (russets)x2, and whatever else I can get in there.

I also planted strawberries, but I forgot the picture. Maybe in the next update.

Wait! That’s not all! I decided to try a Self Watering Container as well.

First, I bought all the necessary parts, and assembled it right in the back yard.

Looks lovely, no? An ingenious invention, it looks like the pond basket with filter out all the water, and you fill it up at the PVC pipe. (It is a little hard to see that here, bear with me!)

That’s a better angle, no? The cool part is that the PVC pipe is accessible, even for when the tomatoes get really, really large. I can even shove the garden hose in that baby, and wait for the small little hose to spout water. (That is the overflow line you can barely see in the middle of the container!

This one is a little blurry, as I was so excited when I took it. So, I have a Brandy wine, and a Roma tomato there. The garbage bag keeps in the moisture! Ingenious, and not too hard to build.

Well, I will leave you all with the best phot yet, the obligatory close-up of the pepper plant. I am so excited to see what the harvest will bring! Funny how they say it will be a red bell pepper! It gets like that when you let it ripen. Heh.