My Small Backyard Garden

Here are a few pictures of my tiny container garden in our backyard.  Our yard is as big as a postage stamp (we live in a townhouse).  My Kids, Husband and I picked out the plants, then I planted everything while they went out golfing.  Here are a few flowers that we picked out.  We made sure to get full-sun flowers since they are in a sunny area and it gets pretty hot against the privacy fence on most summer days.

We added a few rainbow fans to keep bugs away (plus the kids love to see them spin when the wind blows).

Below, you will see our two pepper plants.  They are both Sweet Bell Peppers.  One is going to produce orange peppers and the other will produce yellow peppers.  I put a cage up in advance to support the peppers when they get to their full height.  Last year, they grew to about a foot over the cage!  Since the pepper plants do not take up as much room as a tomato plant, I was able to put two peppers in one pot.  Last year, I had three pepper plants in one pot and it got a bit crowded!

Below is our tomato plant.  I think it is a Big Boy Tomato.  It said that it was a good container plant and it produced large tomatoes, so here it is!  I bought a better cage this year.  Last year, my tomato plants grew to over 5 feet tall and they were cascading all over the grass from over the cage.  This year, our pepper plants are using last years tomato cage.  This year, I bought a five foot tomato cage.  I could move the side supports up as the tomato plant grows which is nice.  The reason I only put one tomato plant in the container this year is because I went overboard last year.  I think I had 3 tomato plants in this one pot and they went crazy!  The tomato plants were so big that they grew over the cage and along the ground.  Tomatoes were falling off under the plant and I couldn't see them.   The bugs loved it and aphids finally took over the plant.  I will have to make sure the tomato plant isn't crowded and growing on the ground this year!

I found the tomato cage on sale on Amazon for $8.79!  It's well worth it.  That is about what I paid for it at the store.  I would definitely recommend this tomato cage.  It's so much more supportive than the round metal tomato cages.