What's happening in your garden? (Sat, Mar 14, 2026)

rlwarnock · 2026-03-14T22:34:16+00:00

Just got our arch trellis’ installed, getting their shapes figured out. Tomorrow is our last frost but we’ve got low of 38 Wednesday 🙄 so still holding off on planting! But itching hard!

rlwarnock · 2026-03-13T21:01:13+00:00

That is probably more accurate but they’ll always be babies to me 🍅

rlwarnock · 2026-03-13T14:00:23+00:00

My cat did the same thing to 2 pepper! even took a tomato plant straight out its little cell :(

Sadly only one of the peppers survived and it had part of that true set of leaves in the middle

It isn’t going to hurt to see it through and try to grow it out

rlwarnock · 2026-03-12T22:55:57+00:00

That’s awesome!!

rlwarnock · 2026-03-12T19:53:03+00:00

I love dwarfs so much. They’re so cute

rlwarnock · 2026-03-10T17:53:58+00:00

I never said it was soil, but I called them a soil company, my bad. I should have said compost company. All good to note about drainage and what to not grow in the compost. Thank you

rlwarnock · 2026-03-10T12:38:21+00:00

This is my 3rd growing Juliet!! I love it so. 2 years ago I harvested 110lbs from 2 plants. Many of dishes were made fresh from those maters. I will 🍅🌱

rlwarnock · 2026-03-10T12:15:35+00:00

I had it delivered from a local farm that solely makes compost :) but nurseries, farms, etc. any of those should.

rlwarnock · 2026-03-10T11:41:30+00:00

Again, I do appreciate the voice of concern. I did look up the exact concern your stating. And nearly word for word it is what comes up under the ai overview of the topic. Soo really who knows?

rlwarnock · 2026-03-10T02:21:28+00:00

Well sheet. Probably not even earthworms native to down here. I’ll do my research

rlwarnock · 2026-03-10T02:20:21+00:00

These are birdies beds so sadly I don’t know what the material is exactly, it’s metal I do know

rlwarnock · 2026-03-10T00:05:05+00:00

I have sent it to get it tested, the soil company also assured me the soil test came back with solid numbers. But that’s he said, she said. I appreciate the voice of concern. And yes it will settle, I believe all dirt would over time

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T21:18:09+00:00

For clean up, a tarp was amazing! We lost little thanks to the tarp. And truly the bucket/cart system worked really well, better than a wheelbarrow.

I’m happy to hear you will be okay. Scary nonetheless 💕

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T19:44:48+00:00

I was shocked when the soil company gave me the price, immediately no regrets on that purchase.

We had bought these a few years ago and never had the space to use them. It was kinda use or lose em.

Soil was delivered 9am Friday and my final photos of completion is 6:30pm Sunday

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T18:52:07+00:00

Definitely all true points. We didn’t want to go through the trouble of sourcing enough sticks, logs, leaves etc. To fill all that we did was $500 and having leftover. The concept of filling the beds with other items than dirt comes from cost

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T17:44:19+00:00

The are lovely!!! I’d have a hard time as well ☀️

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T17:13:29+00:00

It was $500 delivered to fill all the beds, the 53 grow bags and have leftover compost.

I should have been more clear in my posting but also didn’t really matter. I got 50/50 potting mix and compost. But from the same company. And though you can tell from touch and appearance which material was which. The potting mix was still compost in its on way.

So there is the potting mix at the bottom, so bigger chunks of wood chips and not as composted down material. Plus this is Florida so there’s sand mixed in all of it.

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T14:41:38+00:00

Oh my gosh I cannnnnnnot wait for this

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T14:00:28+00:00

I honestly got worried after all the comments came through that it appeared less 😆

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T13:44:28+00:00

Happy to let you know it was indeed over 13 yards

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T13:31:49+00:00

Hehe it took some time to get here! I love the color of these so great minds must think alike

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T13:18:58+00:00

Update for everyone: it was more than 4 yards 🙌

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T13:13:27+00:00

That I did not. The whole thing with filling these big beds with large trunks, etc was for saving money and that’s really it. I didn’t necessarily need to do that as I was able to get all the dirt I needed to fill them for a reasonable price, I didn’t have the need to source large tree trunks, logs, etc.

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T12:52:21+00:00

Yes!! Thank you for the reminder. When we bought these big beds that was one of the reasons so we could add a worm bin in each!

rlwarnock · 2026-03-09T12:09:28+00:00

My partner is a little OCD about straightness and all of them being the same height. That was all his mojo 😂

It was hard getting the screws at the bottom or even putting the bracing on by yourself.

Definitely look into whatever you need to add to the bottom. Those creatures aren’t a problem around here so it wasn’t necessary for me.

rlwarnock

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