My Tiny Garden
I’m so excited because today I saw that some of my seeds were sprouting in their starter pots. Which is kind of misleading because I didn’t use pots. I used one of the cardboard egg cartons that came with the eggs I purchased. I got the idea from ” Newspaper, Pennies, Cardboard, and Eggs–For Growing a Better Garden: More than 400 New, Fun, and Ingenious Ideas to Keep Your Garden Growing Great All Season Long” which I purchased just before Christmas/Yule.
I’ve planted two things so far, chives and lavender, but the intention is to have tomatoes and a salad garden as well, not to mention a full on container herb garden. I’ll be taking some pictures of my garden and posting them, but right now it looks like two soggy halves of an egg carton filled with dirt in a plastic tub. (chive sprouts are very tiny) But I’m excited.
I’ve also got a bit of a composting container started. It is another pastic tub, which I will undoubtedly need to upgrade for a larger one. I’ve got regular potting soil in it now and am composting kitchen vegetable scraps in it now, potato peelings, lettuce cores etc and so forth. I have been grinding up the composting material with a small food processor and then mixing it thoroughly with the potting soil each time I make an addition.
Oddly enough, since I started doing it, I’ve notice that we don’t seem to have all that much vegetable matter hitting the compost. Which honestly is a good thing, since we have such a small back yard.
On a side note though, there is some existing mint growing in the back yard. I keep calling it a yard, but it is really a patio with a rock border. Anyway the mint is coming up next to the structure out from under the landscapers cloth. I’m told there was a mint hedge all along one end of the area.
I always get a chuckle about people planting mint in their yard and not doing anything to contain the roots. Unless you want a mint lawn it is best to keep mints contained if you have them in your garden.
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