The Container Garden

A few friends have written and asked, "HEY! How does your garden grow? Where are all the garden photos this year? Honestly i am finding myself way behind schedule this year in just about every way. But i am catching up with myself day by day! There IS a container garden in the works, and here are a few photos i took just the other day.

As you step outside my back door into the dog's yard, and look to the right, you'll see my tubs with tomato plants and basil. (and Zinnia standing guard as always!)

We have some wee tomatoes forming on the plants here and there, but it will be a little while before we are picking and eating them. I hope this year we don't have to deal with the late blight we got hit with last year...

I am finding tho that i am dealing with another kind of blight...It's a little Jack Russell tomato plant eating pup named Rubin! So all the tomato plants are caged and various booby traps are set up to keep him from jumping into the tubs to dig them up!

tomato in the making....

This is not a very good picture but a while back in the early Spring i was at the market, and saw this wisteria in tree form! I couldn't resist it at the price they were asking. It was spindly(still is) but healthy and i planted it in the corner of the dog yard where it gets full sun. I am hoping i can keep it trimmed so that it remains in tree form and on the smaller size, to give the dogs some shade and add beauty to the yard.

When i first brought it home it was in rough shape, but i trimmed it up and there is a lot of new growth forming already!

From here if you turn around and face where you came from, you'll see the tiger lily bed, which the dogs have fun running thru and trampling...Maybe next year it will be less exciting to trash by the JR pups!

If you follow old Gipetto here (who just turned 17 on June 12th) you'll see more tubs and buckets of tomato plants and basil too...

Little Honey and the bins...

And here is my big bin full of lavender i planted last year after i lost the tomatoes to the blight. Only 3 plants made it thru the Winter but they returned to give me some lovely lavender flowers. I hope to dry the cuttings and make some sachets. The tomato cage laying in the bin is to discourage Rubie from jumping in and playing like he has his very own sandbox to dig in! Keep your fingers crossed for me! I'll be updating these photos soon!

The Dog's Domain ~ The Side Yard

This part of the yard has never had anything planted in it except for whatever grows wild, and my morning glories that cover the fence. Because i live in such a small space i have been wanting to grow some of my own food, but didn't know where i could do that. So, here is my little container garden, smack dab in the middle of the dog's territory. I had to put the plants in big tubs so that Zinnia and Pollyanna didn't decide to use the plants for tug of war, and so that Gipetto didn't water them with something other than water if you know what i mean... Even tho this is the North side of the house, this half of the yard gets sun all day long. Just right for sun loving tomatoes!(see...not much grass grows here due to all the 4 legged foot traffic, but my lawn guys are hoping we can let all the wild things grow and cut them back and at least there will be green covering the ground. Who needs grass???)
In this smaller tub i have two heirloom varieties of tomatoes~ Brandywine, and one called Rose. I picked these because i loved the names...I'll let you know how they taste)

And in the bigger tubs we have Early Girl and Big Boy, with a little extra basil planted around them. If it gets too crowded in the tubs i will move some plants to new containers, but i was told i shouldn't have any trouble with this set up...we'll see...)

So, for now, that is it for the gardens here. I'll take more pictures in the coming weeks when the gardens explode with color... Thanks for stopping by!