As an offshoot of another project, I find myself with a garden this year.

I had salvaged a number of five gallon buckets that had fallen into disuse and it seemed a natural progression to take advantage of the situation to see if they were capable of producing again. Here's the key to what's where. This should make it easier to follow along as the plants grow. So far, I've used no amendments - just dirt and water.

As a baseline to compare to, these pictures were taken between May 31st and June 2nd.

Zucchini

Tomato

Sweet Banana Pepper

Pole Beans - Rightmost Bucket

Pole Beans - Middle Bucket

Pole Beans - Leftmost Bucket

The peas were a fun mini-project when it became necessary to expand the trellis system.

Cabbages

Brussels Sprouts

Ragtag seemed a fitting name considering most everything has been salvaged for re-use or re-purposed as a money saving measure. The only items I've had to purchase are the landscape fabric (~$23), 120 pins for fabric (~$20), 15 bags of mulch (~$38), and the plants/seeds themselves (~$30). I'll be needing a few more bags of mulch to finish things up, but that will be under $15. I expect my return on monetary investment will be break-even or maybe better, but that's not the main goal. (It IS a nice perk, tho.)

The point of reviving the garden is because it's just fun to watch things grow that YOU planted. There's a certain satisfaction to picking a tomato or zucchini to use in that day's meal.

Welcome to the Ragtag Garden!

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