However, I used our $100 in Rona gift cards today to go towards the purchase of four deep planters (square) in which I figure I can grow some of our veggies (carrots, beets, peppers, and cucumber). We got two types of carrots, one of which is the little round variety, so I'll try that in the original planters which are long and fairly shallow, to see if that will work, and use those containers for the lettuce, which I think should be just fine. We'll need to clear a spot in the yard for the corn/peas/zucchini triple combination, and I do need to get the front in-ground planters cleared out so I can plant the amaranth, but I have time on that as it's a late May to early June planting. I ended up cheating and not getting most of my seeds from West Coast, I just picked them up at Rona, but we'll have to order the amaranth, and likely the cauliflower blend, although I can check a couple of places in town which carry the West Coast seeds to see if they have those ones in stock. I figured, this year, let's get the planters and see if I can actually produce some fresh veggies from the yard ... if it works, I can go for the gusto next year and to go town on the fancier varieties of things we wanted to try.
I may go ahead and order a bat box, though ... we do want to attract bats to the back yard, particularly as they would keep down the mosquitoes during the summer and make lounging in the pool more pleasant.
I also should figure out how many tires I have and if I think that will be enough for a potato planter, or if I will need to get the one from the catalogue, which you can pull up the sides of the bucket, essentially, as the plant grows, to hill up the dirt more and more around it to force it to produce more tubers.
We shall see!
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