A First-Year Experience in Container Gardening 2

In that same week, I got my answer to how I was going to plant the squash. I knew the squash would need some significant room to bush out. I was driving down a back country road and came upon a heap of tires. I thought I remember reading somewhere that tires would make excellent planters. I grabbed a few and by the end of the season was very surprised at the results. Not only did my squash go crazy in the tires, we had enough squash for the whole neighborhood.

I lost my first lettuces to the critters called raccoons. But not because they ate them. They tipped them over and spilled out the lettuces. What a huge mess it caused. But I as determined to set it right. I soon learned to plant the lettuces in a garden away from the deck. I came upon some idea of using cinder (concrete) blocks to make a raised bed. Similar to a container garden, a raised bed garden would be better suited to lettuce gardening. So I made my first bed using cinder blocks. They never lined up completely as I planned them but they worked out just fine. The lettuces grew, so did the spinach that I threw in beside the lettuce.