NEW ADDITIONS! It's been a great and busy month in the square foot garden. We seem addicted to building planters but I really hope and I know I say this every month, but seriously, I do hope this is it for the season - no more planters!
Here are new additions to the garden created solely in May:
I was so excited about these planters. I love fruit. I was previously using this space for root veg, a 3 square foot planter, a foot deep, but moved it in front of the onion/garlic/peppers planter on the other side of the stairs.
First we built a heavy platform to support the weight, with spacing between the wood to allow for drainage of water, and underneath planks of wood lattice style for additional support. Then 4 planters each 12"x12"x12" were created. We did the 4 planters as separates in case we would ever need or want to move them around the garden.
The fruit trees shown from left to right are: Blueberry (Sunshine Blue), Dwarf Peach, Dwarf Nectarine, and Goji Berry tree/bush.
If you are unaware of what a Goji (Go-Gee) berry is, I strongly suggest you look into it on the internet, it is the new wonder berry discovered from the Himalayas and is practically touted as berry of everlasting life! We planted the Goji in the corner as it will grow to up to 3 meters (10 feet) although I will cut it back I plan on letting it grow to 5 or 6 feet if it wants too. It should fruit heavily in 3+ years.
Ok, this is another deep planter, 12" to be precise. We wanted to grow things here that may require more space and should be more permanent. For instance, we are using a square (may end up using 2 squares next year) for asparagus, 1 for rhubarb, 1 for carrots, we also found 12 summer cabbages feeling rather sorry for themselves at a garden centre and marked down to 10 pence so we picked them up and looked after them and wow! look at these babies now! We are also growing, in this space, leeks (2 squares) and 1 aubergine.
This is not a pretty picture. I realise that. But I am showing it because Simon has planted a special pack of Organic Edible Flowers. Perhaps in hindsight we should have raised them to seedlings first, but Simon went ahead and just sprinkled them in. This planter does not get a ton of sunlight but we're hoping by late August we will have some beautiful flowers to bravely add to our summer salads. I'll try anything once, sometimes even twice. :D
Lastly, this is the indoor herb planter which I have taken another picture of (first one was a couple of weeks ago) just to show that it is still alive and kickin. The only herb that did not survive was a small rosemary. We replaced it (to the far right) with sage.
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