I never thought that I would have a garden because there is no room in my yard. Well this year I have a garden. A bucket garden. We have a cat and a dog that use a litterbox and that means kitty litter buckets. We have been getting the litter in white buckets, and like a lot of people, we didn't throw them away.

We took the kitty litter buckets and drilled about 15 holes in the bottom of them. Then we filled the buckets with dirt from our compost pile.

To fertilize the plants, when we first put them in the buckets, we used Miracle Grow. About 1 week later, a friend gave us a 1 gallon zip bag full of alpaca poop. I wanted to put some in each plant pot, but my husband said no... so we did what he wanted and that turned out to be a reallly good thing to do!

What he wanted to do was take the alpaca poop and put it in a (30 gallon)trash can, and then fill the trash can up 3/4 full with water. Everytime we watered the plants, we added whatever amount of water we took out back into the trash can. So basically we had alpaca poop soup.

For tomato plants we have: 3 early girl variety, 2 cherry tomato, 1 grape tomato, 1 beefsteak tomato, and 1 tomato plant that I had in my kitchen all winter.

This is an ongoing process, so as the plants grow I'll be updating this site with pictures and information.

As you can see, the tomato plants are doing well with the metal rings...we are going to need to get some tomato stakes soon though because the plants are getting too tall to keep upright.

My tomato plants 9 days since the last pics with no alpaca poop soup, just rain, rain and more rain.

Here is a picture of the plant that I had in the house all winter (tomato plant in front),

When it was in the house, It got tall but the stalk stayed thin. So when I transplanted it into a bucket I wasn't sure what would happen but it got taller and a thicker stalk and now does have blossoms on it.

The peas won't climb the strings...so I'm trying to make them climb.

We are growing potatoes in a trash can, so far so good...Everytime the plants grow we add more dirt. I wonder what we will have in the fall? Potatoes, I hope!

You can see that we added the dirt up to the line on the barrel, which is where the plants were in the first picture.

We have pole beans 8 plants in 1 bucket, (I think this may be to many...we'll see),

 I started out with 2 plants in the blue bucket, but we have been having so much rain, 1 of the plants died.

As you can see the other one survived, and has the beginnings of 5 cucumbers on it.