Friday, April 30, 2010

Now here's a garden idea....or four
I wish I had thought of this swimming pool idea when we were constructing our raised beds way back in the 90's at my old house. No digging required, and they look kinda cute. Of course there are way too many for a suburban back yard, but still if they were lined up at the back of the space and had a few items planted around them, no one would notice they were wading pools. No digging required, just fill and plant. Woowoo!



So as a comparison, here are some garden bed kits that are currently available. The least expensive one is from Sam's Club. And the most expensive and coolest looking is from White Flower Farm.
Can you really get carrots to grow at this depth? I think beets would work, definitely lettuces, green beans, zucchini, some peppers, radishes, cukes, if they were the bush variety, and definitely basil and other herbs. 
  It is not a good idea to place a box or boxes like these in the grass, as a weed wacker would have to be employed often, making a lot of noise and annoying the worms

OK everybody out of the pool!

I am just about finished putting in this year's garden. There are always those last minute deals that I cannot pass up, and so I am not saying it is the total end of planting, but sort of the grand finale week. And I am expecting a visit from my friend Rose (how appropriate a name) on Sunday, and we are going to have a spa week. That means lots of sitting in the hot tub getting pruny, gazing at the flowers from the deck and drinking margaritas, since Cinco de Mayo is coming up and then celebrating the 21st birthday of our cat Popeye (this is his last summer) and just having a very relaxing week.

13 comments:

  1. What a fantastic idea. A great inner city solution to poor contaminated soils too. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. I was so intrigued by your mention of the wading pool garden, that I found the entire article and accompanying instructions on how to create a container garden. Great idea!

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  3. Another "container" garden idea: We recently visited my husband's aunt. An avid gardener in her youth, she is unable to get down on the ground now. She bought bags of potting soil and laid them flat on an old picnic table. I think it held 6 bags. Then she just cut slits in the bag and stuck her plants in! No bending, no weeding,no dirty clothes or mess to clean up! I think some of the soil already contained fertilizer appropriate for some of her plantings, so that step was eliminated, too. She did say that she will have to remove at least some of the plastic around the stems for adequately watering the roots. I thought it was ingenious.

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  4. I think I am going to buy a baby wading pool and grow some tomatoes... think that would work?

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  5. His 21st birthday?!
    Say Hi from me. He is an exceptional cat.

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  6. The wading pool as planter sounds pretty good to me!
    Why will this be Popeye's last summer?

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  7. Wait until the end of the summer and you can find those pools on curbs for free!

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  8. I thought last summer was the last summer.

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  9. Great planting ideas...thanks for sharingd!!!

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  10. Amazing Popeye. Hope you have a fun filled week.

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  11. Everybody into the pool!

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  12. wondering why it's Popeye's last summer? how do you know?

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  13. Happy birthday to Popeye. 21 years WOW!

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