Garden Planters 2015

After a great year last year, my planter garden has grown-literally... funny how that happens. My big terracotta pot cracked over the winter so I replaced it with a plastic one that's 2" wider and also picked up the plastic whisky barrel pot. The cement gargoyle is standing guard and deterring critters... or at least giving them the stink-eye as they eat my plants:@) The streamers floating around are Christmas tinsel I've tied on where I can-it's moving and sparkly and birds don't like it. After these pics I added the plastic forks around the rims again too.

I've gardened long enough to know that the tub of tomato plants will probably have to be moved, but for now I like the way it looks snugged up to the others.

My local garden center carried 40lb bags of raised bed soil this year, I thought that was great! It had everything from mulch to compost to perlite in it. I mixed that with manure and some dirt from the old planter. There are a few flowers tucked in for color and we'll see how they do, I'm hoping the portulaca drapes down over the sides.

So this is my little garden experiment this year, there will most likely be one addition to it, but I'll save that for another time.
I hope your weather's been nice and you've been able to get your hands dirty!

Have a happy day:@)