We’ve upped our container gardening this year, and bought a water tank to use as a raised bed. It goes with the “modern farmhouse” theme of our property, and is easier to reach and tend. My husband set it up, and I’ve planted aspire melons and basil seed (because that is what I grow best) and set up the watering system. I poked some onion seeds in, but I don’t have high hopes for those (because they aren’t basil). The green in the middle is a basil plant I picked up at the hardware store, since I had a late start putting in the seeds.

The strawberries are trying to put out fruit. I put up a gate around some of the patch, with hopes that I will get to the ripe berries before other critters.

I relocated the fancy pots to the front porch, and thought I would put in some pretty flowers, then a lavender plant caught my eye, and I remembered that my rosemary plant didn’t survive the freeze, so they turned into herb pots rather than flower pots. The big pot I left empty because it sprouts cat.