I’m excited to expand my little container garden, so now that spring is here I’ve taken the opportunity to add more plants!
A few weeks back, I stopped by a local garden store and Home Depot to buy some plants and seeds. Here’s what I picked up:
4 onion bulbs (also known as “Sets”) – price: .10 cents
1 tomato plant – price: $1.69
1 packet of carrot seeds – price: $1.69
1 broccoli plant – price: $1.98
1 raspberry bush – price: $6.97
1 pot – price: $3.28
I planted the raspberry bush in the plastic pot that we picked up, using some potting soil that was leftover from when we built the planters. Everything else went in the existing two planters except for the tomato plant, which is thriving on my kitchen windowsill. In addition to the broccoli, onions, and carrots, I planted additional radishes and fava beans, since I still have a ton of those seeds left. The onions are shooting up like crazy and everything seems to be doing well so far – with minimal interference from raccoons!
My approach to gardening is to expect nothing other than to learn. Since I am a novice, I know I’ll make plenty of mistakes, and there will be a learning curve in determining what will grow well here. That’s ok, because this is how I’ll learn the skills to grow lots of great produce in the future!
