We don’t have a garden at our house. Lots of lawn, but under the lawn is just crushed rock, so we don’t really have the option to have any kind of garden without doing raised beds. That wasn’t in the budget this year, and I knew it wasn’t going to be in the budget for next year either.

And with the impending food shortage because of covid, I knew I had to do something. So onto amazon I went, looking for a portable type of garden bed.

I found these Plant Grow Bags, they were 25 gallons which seemed to be a good size. Sure enough, they were about 2 feet or just over 2 feet by 2 feet high. Perfect for what I was hoping to grow, potatoes. And they will last about four to five years, and they were budget friendly. Wins in my books.

I decided to try to grow zucchinis, carrots, lettuce and kale, thinking I would recycle the pots as the potato growing season ended. The idea being that once the bags were cleared of potatoes, I’d grow other food sources.

We were already getting compost from the garden place in return for our weeds and clippings, so the only thing we had to buy was dirt. This is what my garden looked like after a few weeks.

The lettuce we had on the deck because we were going to be clipping it every couple days. We had one zucchini plant on the deck that just went crazy! and not only that, a bee had a nap in the flowers!

So here’s the deal. All of this was so new for me, I had no idea that gardening could be fun and rewarding. I liked seeing bees come to the flowers, and I liked seeing the plants grow. For someone like me who doesn’t have a green thumb, or who was garden phobic their entire lives, this was a really big deal.