Disaster In My Garden!

Well this will be a two part about how I started a container garden and it fell and broke!

I had decided to use my balcony as a great (read only) way of growing any vegetables. I went out and bought some of the necessities:

1: 3 large blue Containers
2: 1 Huge bag of organic potting soil
3: 1 Pre-grown Tomato plant
4: Seed Packets
       I bought a "Gourmet Salad" mix

To prep my bins I drilled small holes about 1" apart and 1" from the bottom of the bin. This is to give the soil more than enough drainage. Since it is 1" from the bottom I know that some "reserve" water will stay in the bin to wick upwards as the soil dries out from the top down.

Next, I added the soil about a 1/3 of the way. I took my tomato plant and cut away most of the peat pot and gently loosened the roots and planted the tomato plant 80% of the way below the lip of the bin. I was always afraid to do it this way until I saw that it did make a difference. The plant will grow so much higher and stronger because all the little hair-like bristles on the stem will sprout and become roots. I nipped off the leaves that were going to be buried and then covered the plant.

Once that's done I took the seed packets and made 2 small furrows and planted the seeds inside.

4-6 days later everything was going good. The seeds had sprouted and I licked my lips in anticipation of what they would taste like. Homegrown food! Yum.

Then the "accident" happened.
More on that in the next post.