Kjell's Veggie Garden

 Good morning,

A few years ago Kjell built a lovely ladder-style plant holder.  

The first year we had flowers on each of those shelves and they were quite pretty.

 This year, though, he has added a watering system and has planted veggies in the pots and shelves.  The watering system is quite efficient.  Well, I am married to an engineer....

That blue tub captures rain water.  When it doesn't rain enough, Kjell adds water to it.  That's a mosquito net top that allows water to enter the tub, but no mosquitos to find a happy home there. 

 The plants certainly seem to like this system!

That little blue thingie and more like it are inserted near each cluster of plants.  It is the water delivery system from the tub of water at the bottom of the planter.

The system is powered by the sun to keep the water flowing at specific times of the day as determined by Kjell. 

The stick on the right side of the tub is a dip stick gauge to check the water level.

Here's the handsome engineer himself!

Kjell also made tags for the plants.

Since the top of the planter is difficult to reach for both of us, I tossed some marigold seeds up there.  They like the watering system, too!

I harvested some of the herbs and that red pepper to bake salmon.  It was all delicious, but that pepper was hotter than I could eat "straight!"  

How does your garden grow this year?

All the best,

Lois