Nice, upvoted and followed (based on your comment on my post :) ).
We gardened in containers last year, not knowing where we'd end up so we could move the garden if we needed to (didn't need to). Now we've got a 50' x 60' patch which we fenced in, and have put down two 2' shade cloth rows, with plants in the first 15' or so. I put a third shade cloth down today, a 3' one.
My plan is to fill in the beginning of the garden first; as the gate is in the front, and towards the right side, we'll basically fan out from the front-right corner. That's the wettest corner, so it makes sense in terms of watering, but if we use plants that don't like a lot of water, we should put them elsewhere (e.g., the back left).
Looking forward to watching your garden grow! :)
Thanks! Caught up on some of your stuff today, too.
Portability is one of the best features of using containers. That and weed control sold me on the idea years ago. (I'm a very lazy gardener. LOL!)
You've got a sweet set-up and lots of room to expand and experiment. It's neat that you have a slope to accommodate the different levels of water requirements. Good thinking on the placements of the plants for the future!
Thanks! Yeah the "slope" has two causes -- one being the swamp next door, which flows into our yard in the front right; we're planning to put some drainage pipe in to help with that. The other is the previous owners, who buried their trash in the back left, and which is coming back up... I found a knife the day before yesterday, and put it on one of the two tables out there. Then I forgot about it yesterday when I put down the third shade cloth, and ripped it in an unseemly fashion (unseamly? :) ).
Re: lazy gardening: I've read a modification to an old quote, "Laziness is the mother of invention" -- hence the remote control. :)
Dang, that's some interesting circumstances to deal with. Flooding is no stranger to gardening situations, but a trash heap is a new one! The pipe sounds like a good plan, especially for a swamp. Bummer about the shade cloth. Mishaps are annoying and time consuming.
Excellent sentiment and that quote is spot on!