The Dirt Box

This is our dirt box. We've had it for almost a week.

Adam filled it with Nature's Best Soil from the local forest products supply place. In addition to other landsape products, they have bins of soil from which you take what you need and pay a low price for it by the bucket or cubic yard. Adam paid for 15 five-gallon buckets.

I have filled the dirt box with plants/seeds for tomatos, cucumbers, peppers, cilantro, romaine lettuce, carrots, bush beans, and mixed salad greens. We tried a few different veggies to see what we end up harvesting and liking.

Adam built a conduit frame with twine for the vine plants to climb. The kids absolutely love the dirt box and want to dig in it all the time. The biggest garden pest so far is Michael. He doesn't try to eat the plants, just the dirt. We really have to keep an eye on him.

The other day, Emily was digging a nice little hole in the corner of the dirt box. Before I could "assist" her, she pulled a lettuce plant, roots and all, from it's store container, then placed it in the hole she'd dug. For all we know, we couldn't have done it any better than she did.