A First-Year Experience in Container Gardening

Growing vegetables in a regular garden just didn’t work. It took too much effort to control weeds, pests and a couple of critters called raccoons. So I decided to try growing in containers. At first, I thought that meant going to the store and buying some pretty pots. As inexpensive as they were, I was going to need a lot of them to make up the space I needed. So I started thinking of the things I could use as containers just until I had the money.

I have eight cats, six inside cats and two outdoors. Now these cats go through a lot of cat litter in a month’s time. I have all these 27-35 pound cat litter containers hanging around my garage, most times until I manage to put them out to the garbage dump. I thought I’d try to use a cat litter container as a make-shift planter. I cleaned it out thoroughly with a little soap and water. I knew it had to have holes in the bottom to allow for sufficient drainage. I drilled holes into it with a smaller sized drill bit. I plopped the potting soil and behold! A garden pot was born! My kids think I should have decorated up the sides so that the kitty litter panels wouldn’t show up but it didn’t bother me a bit. I was recycling something that would just end up in the trash anyway.