Day 8

Well...it's been a whole week.  Temperatures have been hot and humid, 80's and 90's, all week.  Lotsa water and Lotsa sun means Lotsa growth.  Remind me to try and take these pictures from a relatively standard spot for each pot/box...it would make it easier to see the growth, over time, of each plant if I were able to take these pictures from the same spot every time.  If I were really professional I would have a tripod set up for each plant, and give you time lapse photography of each plant as it grows, but, HA, good luck with that.  Maybe I'll outline some foot-prints on the deck where I need to stand for every shot.  Anyhoo, on with the show:

Sunflowers:  Amazing growth in just one week:

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Mr. Stripey, Yummy Bell and Container Tomater...all coming along nicely and starting to bud, although Mr. Stripey has some brown spots.  I may have over-watered, but it appears to have recovered nicely.

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Watermelon...my two year old's Watermelon barrel is doing great:

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And Finally, Red Norland...just one week and we can see some green sprouts coming up around the edge of the whiskey barrel:

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So, everything appears to be humming along very well, with very little effort.  You may notice some grasses and weeds starting to sprout in both the Watermelon and Potato Barrels, but I'll be able to pull up a chair and weed each barrel, when needed, in a few minutes.  Piece of cake!

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You may have notice the minor adjustments I made to the Planter Boxes.  I moved them down and out of the wind and by the looks of the growth spurts on both Tomato/Peppers and Sunflower plants I made a good choice:

Now, when the wind picks up I won't have to worry about my Sunflowers or Tomato/Peppers blowing away.  Also, it has the added advantage of being able to loosely tie each plant to the deck railing/spindles...Win/Win!

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The wife didn't want me to do any more drilling or nailing into our already ravaged deck, so I came up with an ingenious little workaround:

See that?  Just a piece of 1 x 1 wood that the Planter Box hanger grabs onto and squeezes against the deck spindles.  Amazing?!  Yeah, I know.  Hard to believe I figure out that one all by myself (although, my two year old gave me the idea).

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So, that's about all for today.  I'll try to keep up with the weekly updates and more if anything unusual happens.  In the meantime, "You stay classy San Diego." er, I mean, Keep Farming and Keep it Lazy!