Here’s the thing: I need to grow food but my body cannot bend over more than three times or I likely can’t walk the next day due to the pain in the lower back. Plus, I think there are more plant problems and work if the plants are in the ground and I’m not dealing with the ground since that is way down from me and I’m not going down there.
If I need to deal with a plant that is in a bag sitting in the garden, I pick up the bag and put it on a table and deal with it and put it back.
I can deal with the big containers on the deck just by sitting in a comfortable padded chair beside the container and do it if it required me to be down to the container. The containers have wheels on one side and a handle on the other side so I can easily move the containers around the deck.
I’ve also got bird netting to put over the bags in the garden and netting to put over the ones on the deck.
Today, I saw a big, fat cardinal eating the insides out of one of my tomatoes. I chased him away and had to pitch the tomato. That won’t happen when I get this new set up going. I’ve said before I’m sick of my seeds getting murdered by squirrels and birds and I surely don’t want them murdering the ripe tomatoes.
I will get control of that garden with the right heirloom foods growing. It’s either the squirrels, birds, or garden I can’t do, or it’s ME with a better set up I can make produce. I own that property and those squirrels and birds do not and I can make that outside work for me.
This is war!