The plants, they're germinating!

So I've got four more buckets - two more mystery plants germinating. They're very spiky, and are like little loops of green string growing out of the ground. I suspect these are the spring onions and chives but who knows? Last time I checked spring onions aren't circular. Well, not in two dimensions at least.

The rain has eased off a bit, thank god, I can handle watering the plants myself thank you! The spinach is starting to worry me, it's like it's on steroids and another three dozen or so have sprouted. In the two buckets. I think I might need to transplant them because I can't let any of my plants die. I could possibly have over planted the spinach but we'll see.

Houston, we have germination!

So in four short days the spinach germinated. I have about two dozen spinach plants up so far, and am watching the other eight buckets like a hawk. At least, I think they're spinach, as I didn't label the buckets and completely forgot what is where. I've been watering them like anything though.

Well, at least, they're getting watered like anything. It's been raining really really hard here, for days on end. The buckets are draining right through(The drainage holes worked! Excellent!), I was worrying like anything. This rain fortunately thoroughly wetted the soil right through to the bottom, I didn't know this was what you were supposed to do until I read the potting mix bag a day or so ago. Go figure. I have been pondering adding more to my little collection however I'd need to add buckets and it's 89c per bucket but they require 9L of material(About $2) and seeds. It's pretty expensive. I think I'll wait until I find a cheaper option.

First post!

The first post of my blog, woo! So the basic premise is I'm in a rental home, right? Definitely can't do any large scale food farming by tearing up the lawn. At least, that's what everyone tells me. But I've got this large deck with about 15 square metres of space.

I'm a complete amateur when it comes to growing things however, but I shall certainly attempt it. I'm intending this blog to be a learning experience for a pot plant farmer intending to grow food to save money in a rental property with added health benefits. Today I decided to start it off with chives, parsley, spinach, garlic, and spring onions - all staples of our diet and stuff we purchase from the shops on a regular basis.

We spent $30.00 on ten drainage bases(For putting under the pot plants) and I used 10 old buckets I had laying around, I punched a hole in the base of each one for drainage. In went a couple of litres of bark(Drainage) and a couple of litres of potting mix. This cost me $14. I then put in the seeds($8). Total cost: $52(Rounded up). I emptied the seed packets into the buckets(Two buckets per packet) and put half a dozen pieces of garlic into the two garlic buckets.

That's all for today folks, I'll update in a few days time and hope something actually happens.