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My Great Outdoors: Olivia's Hand-Built Container Gardens

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2009greatoutdoorsbadge.gifName: Olivia
Location: Portland, OR
Type of space: Garden
Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: We built 3 4'X4' raised container gardens for vegetables and herbs. In one of the boxes we hooked 2 IKEA trellises together for the sugar snap peas to climb up. So far we've planted: roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, green onions, summer squash, radishes, jalapeno, green peppers, yellow peppers, basil, cilantro, parsley, cucumber, beets, buttercrunch lettuce, arugula, snow peas, and sweet peas!

 
 

...Here's a link to how much it's grown in 3 weeks. I can hardly wait to start picking things! Three of the pictures are a timelapse of Week 0-2 of planting.

How did you create it?
I have a step by step how to for building the container garden boxes here.

Recommended store, site, product or resource?
Home Depot for wood and supplies, IKEA for the SALVIA trellises

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Yay! Here's a video/slideshow of Week 0-3 for how quickly it's growing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r9W422gC4c

posted by poweredbytofu on June 8th 2009 at 4:01pm
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