Gardening in my Veg-trugs
In late May, I planted my Veg-trugs. Veg-trugs (available from Lee Valley Tools, Halifax) are small portable garden troughs perfect for a deck garden.
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This year I have planted three vegetables:
cucumber
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zucchini
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yellow wax bean
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As you can see, all are up. The maple seeds around each plant will sprout and will take lots of time to remove.
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I’ll update on progress as the summer unfolds.
All my best,
Jane
nichepoetryandprose 
That’s great. Wonderful idea and hopefully you’ll get a great harvest.
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rogermoorepoet
June 16, 2018 at 6:39 pm
Last year I had so many cucumbers it was ridiculous. They even climbed into a nearby tree where I couldn’t reach them.
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jane tims
June 16, 2018 at 6:49 pm
We’ll visit in cucumber season!
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rogermoorepoet
June 16, 2018 at 6:50 pm
Good plan. Hope they do well. We’ll have cucumber sandwiches!
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jane tims
June 16, 2018 at 7:00 pm
That’s very appealing. I get overwhelmed even thinking about vegetable gardening. For one thing, the experts always seem to insist one plants dozens of kinds of plants. I feel myself tense up just thinking about seed trays and grow light s and …..This brings it all down to a scale I think I could handle! The maple seeds are sure a familiar problem.
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melissabluefineart
June 15, 2018 at 11:51 am
I used to plant a huge garden but knees got in the way. Now what I do is very manageable … at a scale where I can use it to relax!
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jane tims
June 15, 2018 at 8:27 pm
Smart. What I’m wondering is how to undo the big gardens I created when I was young and ambitious. Somewhere along the line I planted a native vine, thinking if it is native, surely it won’t cause a problem??? Ha! So now I spend my summers out there with a whip and chair trying to rein it in. It has eaten my mock orange, a rose of sharon and 2 hydrangeas, and is headed this way!
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melissabluefineart
June 16, 2018 at 11:09 am
It all goes wild eventually. I planted a few things that have taken over. Should be a book called Invasion of the Invaders. My big garden is now a lawn, edged with current bushes, rhubarb, day lilies. Some of it was a pool for a few years and two young trees are planted there now. I love my Secret Lawn.
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jane tims
June 16, 2018 at 6:39 pm
It sounds magical.
My plants had their own ideas of how my little garden would turn out. At first I panicked but I am beginning to relax. What the heck, right?
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melissabluefineart
June 17, 2018 at 4:39 pm