I ‘heart’ Container Gardening!

by Jenny Keener

“I have an idea!” These are words that immediately cause my husband to stop paying attention and simply nod and smile, occasionally offering a pretty convincing “hmmm” or “Uh huh”.
But I know that you, dear reader, will not merely pretend to pay attention. (Even if you are only pretending, I’ll never know, so don’t tell me.)

Anyway, back to “the idea”: Container gardening. Yep, that’s my idea. I know it’s not very inventive, but I live way out in the middle of nowhere and have endless space for flower beds. I’d have never thought I’d abandon my roomy plots, but sometimes circumstances conspire to create a necessity that becomes a joy.

Let me introduce you to my conspirators:

My chickens dig up every single flower bed I try to create and they drive me absolutely crazy.

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My dogs trample everything in my flower beds. They don’t drive me crazy because I’ve already been driven crazy and one can’t be driven to where one already is.

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My helpful children are willing to weed a little in the flower bed or the vegetable garden… but not both on the same day.

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So, I’m going to create beautiful containers like these and I am so excited! As usual, we will be carrying incredibly beautiful flowers and containers to plant them in.

However, I don’t know what I’m going to do with the recently abandoned flower beds. I’m thinking of selling them to the chickens.

Cheep.