West View
East View
Even though the yard has been taken over with weeds, from all the rain that Arizona has had this winter, we have had no problems with weeds in the buckets.
Our kids think it is like living in Ireland, because it is so green.
The great thing about the buckets are we can pick them up for optimal sun exposure and mowing(the weeds)
Part of the first planting, February 27 2010, these are the 3 broccoli plants that our Son used in a science fair project for school. He took 3 different plants and played 3 different genre of music for 15 min to each plant, rock, rap, and classical. The results, The broccoli plant that the rap music was played to grew faster.
All three plants seem to be growing the same rate now.
Lettuce
We planted 3 lettuce plants to a bucket because I read that you can plant 4 each in a square foot garden. I am not sure that I will do that again. They are growing like crazy.
Onions ~ We planted the onions using sets
Peas
We planted from seeds, and added the stakes so that they would have something to trellis on.
We had some extra container laying around with out any lids and decided to use the bigger containers for the peas.
Squash
Single Strawberry Plant
*The Second Planting - April 3, 2010 *
5 Better Boy Tomato Plants, 1 to a bucket 
Strawberries - We planted 3 to a bucket
Corn
In the round container we planted Herb - Oregano, Cilantro, sage and thyme. It looks like only the Oregon0 and Cilantro are coming up(first planting)
In the rectangle container we planted radishes(second planting). It is a very shallow container only about 6 inches. We figured that radishes don't need the depth of the 5 gal bucket
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