Since this is the planting/growing season, we had taken it upon ourselves to get some more plants for the gardens. We grabbed some more strawberries along with a four pack of okra, along with some catnip, oregano and parsley herbs. After having gotten these plants, we had to get them in the ground more sooner than later in order to allow them to do their jobs of growing to produce for us throughout the year. We started off with the strawberries. One of the most recent drum planters already had a couple strawberries planted, with room for four more. After planting four of the six strawberries we had, we moved on to the 2nd drum planter, one of the lower ones made from a half drum and planted the remaining two strawberries within. There's room for probably three to four more in this planter as well. Moving to the herbs, I took the oregano and parsley plants and planted those in the same old raised bed where the basils and other herbs are planted in. That bed still has a sage plant along with what I believe to be more of another variety of parsley and/or oregano. It was only appropriate to plant the new herbs in the same bed as the rest. Now perhaps when I get more raised beds constructed, I'll have whole sections of beds dedicated to herbs. Perhaps use some hydroponics for growing herbs since these plants are just leaves and would be perfect for growing in hydroponic garden setups. Moving on to the catnip, I had to find something to put these plants in, even on a temporary basis. I had some smaller gallon sized plant bowls that I saved, so these were going to have to do for bigger planters until I can get to some point where I could dedicate a whole raised bed for just catnip. With the drums that we just picked up, this may become a reality more sooner than later. Until then, the three planters with the catnip were staged inside of one of the larger drum planters that was used for potatoes last year. The sprinkler head will at least keep those plants watered for the time being. For shits and giggles we also grabbed a couple bags of composted manure since this particular store had the bags at a pretty decent price compared to other stores. Even if the prices were the same as others, we would've still grabbed a couple bags since we will always need dirt for the raised beds in the garden. We have a long ways to go before we get everything filled up, and at the rate I'm going with the construction of more raised beds, we're going to need more dirt for the foreseeable future, just like gravel. The couple bags we did get I used to fill up some more of the cat litter bucket planters in the greenhouse. The greenhouse by itself will need a sizeable amount of dirt by itself. While in the greenhouse I finished up the planting with the four pack of okra. I chose to plant these little plants in the section of raised beds containing just four buckets. If these okra plants do like most okra plants, these things will end up growing several feet tall, which will probably put them up past the roof of the greenhouse. If that's the case I may have to trim the plants down, especially if I end up getting the roof on before these plants fully reach max height. With the drums we picked up the next garden work will be the construction of the next couple sets of raised beds. Other than continually bringing in dirt to fill up the existing beds, I'll be trying to focus on building more beds to fill up the garden space. With the way it's been raining every couple days here we almost don't have to worry about running the irrigation system to water everything, much less expanding the irrigation system to cover the most recent beds that were not accommodated yet. Little by little we'll get it done.
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