This year I decided to try moving all of our peppers, spinach, herbs, and romaine to the back porch in containers so that we would have more room in our actual garden. Mostly on account of the sweet potatoes. Apparently those things vine like crazy. I’m glad that I did because we spend a ton of time on our back porch in the summer and I love being surrounded by all of the plants.
I took all of these photos over two weeks so you can see that so far everything seems to be growing really well in the containers, which I am really happy about because I didn’t actually research about container gardening so much as I just went to Target and bought a bunch of various sizes of containers for all my plants on a whim.
This is my favorite place on our porch. And this is me being photobombed by a three year old and a dog as I try to take pictures of my favorite place on our porch. I gave a few of the planters a makeover with some paint last week and my tip about painting pots is that if you paint dip them, be sure to re-poke holes in the bottom because the paint will seal up the drainage holes.
Last year we used that storage box as a sandbox but this year Scarlette begged to have sand in one side of her water table so it currently stores all of our outdoor toys like sidewalk chalk. The offset umbrella is from Ikea and I love it because it covers nearly our entire porch when open so between that, this deck sunshield that we wrapped around half the porch, and the box fan it stays shaded and cool enough for us to play out there even in the hot southern summer.
It’s Scarlette’s job to help water the plants and pick the herbs and vegetables for dinner. This is Scarlette holding baby spinach. Please do not be fooled by that sweet picture of her lovingly holding said spinach. That took like, eleven attempts to get her to stop eating raw spinach. You may call her Popeye.
Why does parsley hate me? My parsley never wants to grow pretty like my other herbs.
Here is how our container garden is growing:
Sources: some links are affiliates – I bought most of our deck stuff in a huge sale that Target was having this spring. The outdoor rug is this one, the metal plant stand is this one, the teal gardening can is this one, these are the metal herb markers I bought, these rectangle planters, these floor planters and these round planters all came from Target, the deck railing planter is this one but I bought it I think at Ace hardware much cheaper along with the barrels and all of the terra cotta pots came from a local garden store.
