August 20th

 It's been a little while since I updated, there's been some successes and some not so much.

Potatoes.  2 buckets rotted out.  I had hoped that I would at least have a few potatoes but there was nothing in them, even the seed potato had rotted.  I think I just didn't have enough drainage holes in the bottoms of the buckets.  The two that are left have had all their leaves eaten by 5 pesky caterpillars.  Yesterday they were fine, today it's like they've been stripped.

I've now planted some garlic in one of the buckets (after putting some more drainage in) and I think I will plant some carrots in the other one.  These two potato buckets, I have no idea if I will get any potatoes from them at this point.

I've added some drip irrigation to most of my containers and I'm going to be putting more into the bed(s) this week as I'm getting two more raised beds to add to the one I have.  

The containers are all doing well, papaya and banana have been growing like crazy in particular.

The only strawberries that survived.  Better than nothing I guess.  Hoping there will be plants on sale soon so I can add to these as the bare root thing didn't work out too well.

The rainbarrel I put in.  I don't have guttering so getting water in it from the rainfall is slow going, even in the Florida summer.

The pineapple in the back I planted in June from the top of a pinapple, the one in front I planted from a fruit yesterday.

And lastly, the tomato seeds I planted in July have done better than I expected.  So much so, even with two extra beds I'm not sure I'm going to have room for all of them, so I may be giving some away.

Yay and boo

Sister in one of the potato buckets. I'm not sure why, as they were all given the same drainage but one bucket rotted. The plant withered and fell off so I decided to empty it and see if there was anything in there but nothing.  I still have 4 that look ok though.

Saturday I went to a class run by the county and came away with a whole bunch of goodies including a 55 gallon rain barrel, a micro irrigation kit and a compost bin.   Got lots of good info too.