Planting Season: My Vegetable Container Garden on the Deck

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Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Posted in: My Suburban Space

I am going to be honest here. I have had everything ready to start drilling holes and planting for over a week now but was totally freaked that I was going to miss one critical detail and completely fail. I have been reading and realized so many things I have done wrong over the years. It’s no wonder everything died. But I am sure that there is still so much that I don’t know.

Right about now I am wishing I had bought ONE plant and ONE container.

But too late for that. I had about 20 plants that needed planting.

So yesterday, my husband and I took this….

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and turned it into this…

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And as a word of caution, do not get too attached to these plants and start naming them.  As with all my plants, the odds are against them.

The details:
4 20″ plastic containers with plastic drain inserts
3 12″ self-watering hanging containers
Chicken wire to keep out cats – we will be adding eggshells to the top also
Garden Select Fertilizer
Potting Mix
Plants (cucumber, green pepper, sweet banana pepper, tomatoes, crooked yellow squash, zucchini squash, and okra)

I still need to get something to lift the containers off the deck. I also need to buy chain for my hanging baskets. They all broke before we ever got them planted. So for now…my hanging baskets are on the deck.

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About Extraordinary in the Ordinary

I am a professional photographer who lives and works from her heart. My goal is always and in everything to be better today than I was yesterday. I’m an ordinary person dealing with what I like to believe are ordinary issues, but in all the ordinary days, I want to live an extraordinary life. I am the mom to two grown sons, and there has been nothing I have loved more than being their mom and being home with them. And while you are always a mom, there is a certain part of that time in my life that is over now that they are grown. I miss hearing them play and having them with me all the time and having all their friends over, but it is time to move to the next stage of life or at least trying to figure out what that is. I am making a list of personal goals, connecting with friends, and still nesting even though the children are grown. I think I will always be a "nester". Home is where the heart is. I love home and love making it a healing place of peace and comfort.