Our Box Garden
Here is hubby and the boys with the newly built box garden finishing up the planting a month or so ago (I'm pretty sure Andon was eating the dirt).
Here is a great pic of the garden blooming with all of our stuff! I think it includes tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, green beans, radishes, and we have a separate pot for green onions! He wanted to put lettuce, which we would really use, but the thought of a bug in the lettuce really grossed me out so I decided against it. I know it would be washed, but what if it didn't fall out then I would be eating a bug and I can't go there…
There's a little bean there! We figure we might get a pint of of our little farming :-) I'll have to ask my wonderful MIL to can these for us!
All in all, it cost us about $75 for the potting soil and plants to include. Hubby got the lumber as scrap from work so that was FREE. Honestly, I doubt that we will get enough food from this garden to make it worth the expense. But, it's not about that for us. This is a project that we may get a few maters and beans off of, but we enjoy so much going out to look at our little garden that it's made us happier than we ever thought – weird, but true! And, our Grass Friends will be parking their little bodies in the garden box to grow throughout the summer too!
1 Corinthians 3: 7: “So neither he who plants is anything nor he who waters, but [only] God Who makes it grow and become greater.”
I think we probably will have spent more than we make with our garden, too, but it’s a great experience. This is our second year growing veggies and we’ve already learned a ton. We hope to keep expanding each year (which will keep forestalling any cost benefit).
I love having the lettuce for fresh salads – but there are definitely bugs. Kansas Dad has to wash each leaf separately. Once he even found a caterpillar that had made a little cocoon under a leaf. The kids got a kick out of that. (We tried to snuggle it against a fence outside, but don’t hold out hope it’ll make it out there.)
We’ve also had great luck with the pak choy — we love it in stir fry and have definitely made money on those seeds.
Kansas Mom – I just checked out your garden and yours toootally rocks :-) I should have put in some peas like you did because I just love to eat those! And, ya see what I meant about the bug – their cute and cuddly to look at but they don’t belong in my belly :-)
Thanks for stopping by!
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Andrea – Looks great!! Ya’ll did a great job on it. I love mine. I put it in about 6 weks ago or so – maybe two months? Anyway – I already have tomatos, cucumbers and squash growing. Thanks for the reminder – I need to post an update (let people know I haven’t killed it all – this is the best garden I’ve ever grown. My stuff usually dies – hehehehe!!)
Hi Andrea, I’ve been busy lately and I may have overlooked at your comment on my Coder’s Talk blog regarding your request on how to create a button. I’ve replied your comment.
I hope I will have time to make the tutorial soon.