Hanging light bulb garden

We got a bunch of clear light bulbs that were on their way to the trash. After some trial and error we were successful in removing the filament and inside the socket. We drilled a small hole in the metal socket piece. We used my husbands old guitar strings and twisted a loop on the other end. Hung them up and added plants. I want to fill them mostly with mint, but snow is still preventing me from accessing it. I was able to grab a little bit and had to put ivy clippings in them for the moment. I want to add them all over the house, so we will have a fresh minty smell inside all year around :-)

I have started sprouting and growing parsley, Mung beans, chives, fennel and basil in my glass balls. 

Free pallet small yard garden

This is what we are hoping our backyard will look like soon or at least a vision of it :-)

Since the pallets were free and there are many more we can get our garden can be puzzled together for a custom fit.

In the tops of the pallets there is squash, lettuce, cabbage, and a hanging sweet cherry tomato plant. In the front earth garden there is corn, peas squash and zucchini. In the back earth box is beefsteak tomatoes

In the front planter is strawberries, the raised left planter is cabbage, broccoli and eggplant with a tomato in the plue bucket. In the background are my peas. These little guys have survived hail, snow and crazy winds but are still holding on strong. 

Grow peas grow :-)

These tires we first lined with thick recycled cardboard. There were 2 old unused pipes sticking out  of our side yard. So we planted the closest tires with fingering carrots and the back one has broccoli and romaine lettuce.

 Here are our 2 composters. The cans attached to the fence are all planted with herbs and veggies. Even the blue bins in the center have fingering carrots in them.

Here is our rescued Angora fire tub. After a covering of cardboard and leaves all winter the dirt is rich with worms :-) Chocolate mint and spearmint also :-)

2013 seeds started indoors

It was 48 deg outside today. Reminded me to start our seeds indoors. We had tons of plastic cups left over from a party. So I cut holes in the bottoms, added rocks then the dirt and seeds. The ones on the right are coffee cans, we LOVE coffee :-), those are done the same way but will be screwed to our wood fence outside our back door this summer for fresh herbs while cooking. The plastic cups are in a 55 gal fish tank with water up to about 1/2 from the bottom of the cup. The entire set up is sitting on some plastic gutter covers with a circ pump to move the water. I also add some sea kelp to it once a month. It makes the water kinda brown but our plants love it. Once we are ready to plant the garden, which Mike is building out of some free pallets we got, we can just cut the bottoms out of the plastic cups and put them in the garden. The free pallets are awesome. We realized that is you turn them upside down the spacing it wider and perfect rows for the garden. Will be posting pics of that some.

What a difference a few weeks makes :-)