I've been farming today.

[chochiyo_sama]

Jim and DeAnn bought me a couple of tomato plants about a week ago.  They've been sitting on my front steps waiting for me to have time to deal with them ever since.

Last night on my shopping expedition, I bought a couple of green pots and a couple of ten pound bags of potting soil. 

This morning, the first real chore I did was planting them.  And I documented the event photographically.



Here are the two tomato plants in their original small pots.



Here is one of the two $5 pots I bought.



Here is the Miracle Grow potting soil mix I used.  Each pot took a bag of it.



Here are the two types of tomatoes:  Jet Star and Beefsteak.



Here is the first one planted.  I watered it well.



Here is the second.



And here are the two plants on the front step where they will spend the summer.  Hopefully each will produce at least a couple of tomatoes.

If these work out this year, I might try a few more "potted" garden items next year.

Comments

You are in a growing majority.

[the_godiva]

Many more people are planting edibles this year. They are converting lawn to garden and planting in pots and containers. They are growing food to eat.

It's the economy.

It's also healthy. You can grow stuff that tastes so much better than what you can buy at the store. But it takes work and it isn't cheap.

It's a throwback to the way people lived during the war with rationing and such. Only the very rich had large expanses of lawn. Everyone else used every inch of dirt to grow something that could be eaten.

And just because you can eat it doesn't mean it can't look pretty too.