The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I worked in the pallet garden the other day placing new Ruby Red Swiss chard transplants from the greenhouse in to the pallet that used to be growing spinach.
The Swiss chard was started in the greenhouse about a month ago and now that it’s starting to heat up in there, were decided to move it on out.
The celery we started from seed back in January under grow lights is doing great. As long as I can keep it well watered we should be harvesting celery by the end of summer.
Remember the dried beans I planted? Well this pallet is doing pretty good.
This pallet, not so much. Clearly it was attacked by evil slugs. I spread a bunch of Sluggo down and replanted the pallet though so with any luck, we’ll get some beans in about 60 days.
The strawberry pallet garden is rockin’. Look at all those runners it’s putting out and if you look real close, you can flashes of red berries beneath the leaves.
Here’s a view of the entire pallet garden from the potting bench. 🙂 The Swiss chard is still a little droopy from transplanting but it should perk up soon.
Did you plant a pallet garden this year?
How is it doing? Are you happy with the results?
Mavis wants to know.
Want to learn more about wood pallet gardening and how I put mine together? Click on the pallets above and it will take you to my first pallet garden post of the year. You’ll also learn what to look for when choosing a pallet.
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Carla Bower says
I tried the pallet gardening with spinach. First planting came up very sparce, so I replanted. The additional was so-so, (bad seeds?) however with both plantings they went to seed before I could get 3 leaves off each plant.
I am frustrated about this crop but I am still intrigued with this concept and will try further plantings.
Nikki says
Presuming you’ll have a whole bunch of celery ready at approximately the same time… how do you keep it fresh? I have trouble keeping one bunch fresh… and when celery goes bad it gets all squishy and yucky… eek!
I’m curious if you have some secret?
Thanks!
jess h says
Celery can be cut up and froze!! Works like a charm for soups and such!!
However, I can’t for the life of me get swiss chard, beets or kale to grow for me!! They start growing then… nothing. My kale has statyed at 2 inches/sprouts for well over a month. It just does not want to grow. Same with the beets, and then it dies.
Rachael says
Around here, any leafy green stops growing in April — just too hot. Heat can really mess with leafy greens.
I have the hardest time seeing you, Mavis, in a pullover, long sleeve and black top! Its hitting over 100′ here today, and I sweat in my shorts and tank top. Maybe someday I will get to live some where like the NW. :::sigh:::
jim says
You won’t see Mavis in long sleeves this weekend.. It will hit over 100 in many places in West. Wa!.. Come on cool WA! Don’t like the heat!
IrishMum says
We don’t have a pallet garden, just a couple of raised beds. They have turned into a slug breeding ground. I am going to try Sluggo. and see if that helps. Thanks 🙂
Gwenn says
I live in NE Wisconsin and I just ate my FIRST peas of the season!! Everything is late here this season, they just started picking strawberries last weekend. The peas were so amazing I can’t wait until tomorrow to pick more (I restrained myself and only picked a few for “quality control”). I’m actually seeing little baby zucchini’s, yellow squash and tomatoes on the vine/bush. Just needs to stay warm here so the melons take off.