- 2 packs of Jiffy peat strips
. They are biodegradable pots linked together in groups of 10 with 5 in each pack
- a bag of Miracle Grow Garden Soil
- 3 cheap plastic paint tray liners
(at $0.79 each this was much cheaper than buying garden trays to hold my biodegradable pots)
- plant labels
- Veggie seeds: crimson giant radish
, bush champion cucumber
, granex hybrid onion
, tenderpick beans, and nasturtium
(a flower, but I heard they are edible, too, and keep bugs away!)
- a blueberry bush
This afternoon I planted the blueberry bush outside (though it looks more like a twig than a bush right now...crossing fingers I planted it right) and started the chives, onions, and cherry tomato seeds indoors. I think I'd like to get another blueberry bush (Lowe's had two different kinds) and a raspberry plant. They were only $4.98 each for 2 year old plants. That's a great price to try your hand at growing them! Or at least to me it is.
I'll sow the other seeds outside in a few weeks once I have tended to my garden plots. Some weeds have grown up since I first constructed them. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to make any more of them so anything that doesn't fit will be grown in big containers for now. I've had success with container veggies in the past.
I'll have to plant the strawberries in the next couple of days. We'll see how that goes...I've never planted them either.
Another big garden project is to remove all the grass from the rest of the garden area. I know there's a machine out there that is supposed to make it easier, but I may have to do it with my Black & Decker cultivator
. A little more work than I want to do, however leaving the grass there, lining it with cardboard, and building garden beds and paths on top didn't work out well in the long run. The cardboard was no match for the Bahia grass we have. So I'm pretty much starting out from scratch on some of my garden.
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