After last year’s porch garden we’re doing some things differently this year. To start off with we’re going to use a different arrangement:
With this setup we have all five boxes along the front side of the porch so that they have more access to sunlight. We’ll go out the side of the porch instead of straight out. I already moved the boxes so that the dogs would learn to go out the side now instead of later when there are plants. They’ve picked it up pretty fast that we don’t want them jumping over the boxes. Poppy was disappointed, she likes jumping.
There’s still work to do. The old fertilizer strip needs to be taken out. New soil needs to be added as well as organic fertilizers. We need to finalize what we’re going to plant this year and get the seeds ordered. We will be planting tomatoes but this year we’re going to add cages to help contain the plants. Aside from that we’ll be planting herbs and some flowers. The rest still needs to be decided. Last year we started the seeds about a week into March. I might wait a little longer this year because it was still pretty cool when we transplanted the seedlings.
