Our White House garden

We live in a white house, so we are following the trend set at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by putting in a vegetable garden here. Robert built a “ziggurat-style” planter this weekend. Today, he planted the first vegetables. To see the original idea and a diagram, click HERE.

He bought some redwood boards – 1 x 6s and 1 x 4s and cut them to the proper lengths. He reinforced the corners with 2 x 2s. He filled the boxes with soil. We still need a tomato trellis in the top box. We will be able to sit on our back porch and watch the tomatoes, carrots, beets, radishes, eggplants, bell peppers, Anaheim peppers, and zucchini appear. The round pot on the white column has a cherry tomato plant in it. Herbs will be planted in the strawberry pot on top of the pile.