Project 365: week twenty six: June 25th, 2011 - July 1st, 2011

June 25th, 2011 Hazel meets a skunk.

June 26th, 2011 Rebecca picks strawberries in the garden.

June 27th, 2011 Potato blossoms.

June 28th, 2011 Mint for more quinao salad.

June 29th, 2011 This is what summer looks like at our house.

June 30th, 2011 Squash blossom.  I think its a patty pan but really it could be almost anything.

July 1st, 2011 Arugula growing in my favourite container.  I'll thin it out by eating some of it for lunch.

Internet Excitement! Clawfoot bathtub potatoes are a hit!

Much excitement on the blog this weekend. Our clawfoot bathtub potatoes are a runaway hit!

This post about growing potatoes in containers:

http://www.cubitsorganics.com/2011/06/how-to-grow-delicious-potatoes-in.html

That was also posted over here on Julia's goat-notes:

http://goat-notes.blogspot.com/2011/06/grow-your-own-potatoes-with-laura-watts.html

Went from twitter, to treehugger where Colleen wrote up this nice little post about our bathtub of potatoes:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/06/turn_an_old_bathtub_into_potato_planter.php

Which then ended up on Apartment Therapy's reNest which exploded my blog. Ah! This is a site I read every single day so to see Rebecca and I along with that extremely heavy bathtub & kind words was a great treat.

http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/gardening/planting-potatoes-use-an-old-bathtub-149314

To clarify a few things, the tub is positioned so the drain is slightly down hill and there are two layers of loosely stacked bricks at the bottom.  In our climate we have never had issues with sogginess but I can see how you might.  We have typically used the tub for beets and carrots, especially at our old apartment where we were worried about heavy metal contamination in the soil. Since we moved we're no longer worried and now are on very sandy soil they go in the ground.  Since potatoes are such nutrient suckers, they are in the grow bags this year and the tub is full on greens like mizuna and a bunch of beans.

Growing up, my mother also had a spare clawfoot tub which she kept all the laundry waiting to be folded in.  Later on it was in my brothers' room and it made a great bed for teddy bears.  So I guess the love of the clawfoot tub is breed right into some of us, and repurposing too. 

Don't forget to enter the giveaways at the end of the two original posts, there's a few days left and we're giveaway an awesome book on container gardening along with some great companion seeds for potatoes.