Up to the brim in galvanized pot

 Here’s a recently taken photo the galvanized tub with all its edible edible plants and herbs:

My first galvanized pot holds: 3yr old Swiss chard, lovage, epazote, jellybean flower monkey, lavender, onions, ghost pepper, white flower borage, asparagus, nasturtium, and strawberries 

Purple basil, green basil, winter savory, sorrel, coyote mint, wooly mint, strawberries and parsley are all thriving together in this small space.

I have a white flower borage blooming beautiful in full sun.

Baja in full bloom

 In addition to having edible native in our tiny container garden in Los Angeles- we decided to give native birds and insects a natural habitat slope.  We found ceanothus, toyon, coffeeberry, and other chaparral shrubs and plants. 

Here’s a quick photo drop:

This is a photo of how I wanted it to look and the shrubs I wanted in that area.

Picture Below is my goal of what I wanted planted.  I don’t even have an elderberry in Baja (yet).  And I ended up planting my woolly blue curl further up the hill.  Where it says elderberry, I planted a native mint.

Ed began cutting in the hill and making layers so that we can walk on it and the plants can be planted flat and not slopped. 

So excited to see poppies showing up! I threw seeds 14 or so years ago and they keep reseeding and popping up in different areas. 

Below is a photo of a Baja Pitcher Sage- not sure if it’s also a hummingbird sage.

Galvanized Pot update

 Can’t believe I stopped blogging for a couple of years- just felt like it was one growing season! 

I had my double pot method with worms and food scraps in the bottom pot and a plant on top of it. Everything is growing well and I do find worms throughout the galvanized soil container.  I decided this year to plant more native edible plants. So I’ve added coyote mint, hummingbird sage, woolly mint, borage, berries, and Salvia blanca.

When it rains, any extra water flows out so I don’t need to worry about my plants drowning (lol).

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