Container Gardening withTwo Grandsons

Today, 4/1/11, two of my grandsons and I did some container gardening for them.  The date stamp on my camera is 12 hours off.

This poor little barbecue has had flowers in it for the past 4 years.  When I pulled out the dead flowers and soil the legs fell off.  We will use it anyway.

Here is one of the boys getting soil that was dug out of the potato trenches and put in this bucket.

Here is the other grandson getting compost.

      

Taking turns mixing soil, compost, vermiculite, perlite, and peat moss to plant in.

The bottom of the barbecue was lined with newspaper to hold the soil in.

 

We watered our planting mixture good and then sprinkled lettuce seeds on top.  We found 3 volunteer lettuce plants in the garden and transplanted them into our container. 

    

 Then we covered the seeds with vermiculite, patted it down and watered again.

Empty peat moss bags we are going to plant our potatoes in.

      

Here we used peat moss, potting soil, compost, vermiculite, and perlite mixed together in our bags.  We punched 12 little holes in the bottom of the bag.  We planted two potatoes in each bag and watered them.  As the potatoes grow we will unroll the bags and add more soil until the bags are filled.

Only one onion lover in the group.  We took an empty mint candy container, punched holes in the bottom, lined the sides with a Cheez-it box, and put 4 onion starts in it.

      

Here we are with the first of our container garden.  We punched holes in the bottom of the black buckets and planted carrots just like we planted the lettuce.