This is my new garden, all ready for planting tomorrow. A double row of 85c buckets filled with compost and vermiculite. It's cheap and was fast to put together once I had all of the elements home from the garden centre.
I have searched 2 months for a free source of used timber or other material to make up my square foot gardens. Having no luck at that, I decided to go for the cheapest thing I could find that I could use over and over.
I am really looking forward to getting my seeds in the dirt tomorrow. I have a plan, but it's written in pencil because I'm sure I'll swap things around when the time comes to plant. A whole lot of seeds in the dirt, and a whole lot of empty spaces for the seeds to be planted next week and the next.
Our home made compost is rich and black and just gorgeous. I'm finding some bits of paper and other things that haven't rotted down completely, but mostly it is so good I'm almost jealous of the seeds being planted in all that goodness.
I bought a new hose for the tap on the old corrugated iron water tank. The hose came with a very simple trigger attachment, maybe because the water restrictions still require us to use an attachment and not just a running hose. I had to smile as I screwed the fitting onto the tap. At long last, after living here in this place with the big old garden for two and a half years, our water tank can be put to good use supplying rainwater to my veggie garden.
Living without fresh tomatoes from the garden has been so hard. I just can't wipe the smile off my face knowing that it will be Spring in just a couple of weeks, and my tomato plants will be greening my garden. Tomorrow we'll plant lettuces, carrots, shallots, peas, snow peas and rocket.
I am still hoping to find some free materials to build some real square foot gardens, like the ones in all the amazing blogs I read. I refuse to buy new timber. My buckets will do just fine for now.
I love hiding in my garden!
