Overall Growth!

Getting Bigger! + Basket Pot

Oooo! Check out the growth after only about 1 week!  The cucumber leaves are almost double in size and the tomatoes are really taken off-- I'll have to construct a more suitable trellis. 

Basket Pot Project

I was wandering around my house looking for a project to create and found this old basket.  I got a garbage bag and poked a bunch of holes in it for drainage and then just lined the basket.  I added some broken pottery and rocks for drainage, filled it with soil, and added two sage seedlings and some Mexican Sunflowers.

It's super easy to do!

In The Beginning

I started off with seed packets of the following:

• Tomatoes (Super Sweet 100 Hybrid)
  
• Cucumbers (Early Pride Hybrid)
  
• Spring Onion (Evergreen Bunching)
  
• Sage (Salvia officinalis)
  
• Mexican Sunflowers (Tithonia rotundiflora)
  
• Bells of Ireland (Moluccella laevis)
  
• Chamomile 
  
• Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis)
  
• Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)
  

They were planted in old egg cartons (with holes poked in the bottom for drainage), and plastic pots, which were kindly donated to me from a local nursery! 

Two kinds of soil were used; your regular potting soil from Home Depot and then a 'special' blend soil from another local nursery. This soil contains more wood chips and chunky organic matter- my guess is that it's probably palm tree matter.

The seeds were then covered with plastic wrap to better retain moisture.  

Surprisingly within less then one week the seedlings began to sprout!  The plastic wrap was quickly removed because if the sprouts hit the plastic and curved downwards that would be the end of them!