These flowers had been in a flower bed for a while. Due to some work on our home, I had to transplant them to my garden boxes and then move them back to the original flower bed. I hope they do well, as the flower bed was quite compacted and missing a lot of the soil that had been there before the work was done. I did add quite a bit of compost when I moved them back, so I hope that helps.
Here are my four garden boxes. In the bottom left, you can see oregano in its own pot, because otherwise, it will take over everything.
Top left to right – patio, bush, and cherry tomatoes, lettuce, and snap peas
Middle boxes – red and yellow bell peppers (just planted), lettuce, kale, thyme, and multiplying onions
Bottom row – basil, rosemary, and strawberries
Sorry, the cage is on this box. We have carrots, yellow summer squash, leeks, and potatoes.
I put the cage over the newly-planted squares to discourage digging. We have lettuce, cucumbers, and zucchini.
This box has swiss chard, onions, and lettuce. The swiss chard will probably go into my frying pan or juicer this week. Some of the onions are probably ready to be harvested as well.
Mmm, onions…
Lovely swiss chard
The snap peas are attaching to the tomato cage quite well.
The top left is a cherry tomato plant, the top right is a patio one, and the bottom two tomato plants are bush tomato plants. The Square Foot Gardening Book by Mel Bartholomew says to put four bush plants in a square together, and as the patio and cherry tomato plants say that they are great for containers, I thought that I would put all four in the square and see what happens.
My lovely strawberries are doing well. Some day, I’ll be able to have an entire box of them, but for now, they produce enough for a few bites every couple of days.
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