Preparing the containers, part 3

During the weekend, I cleared up the second container and filled it with something like Mel's Mix. (I ran out of peat moss and vermiculite, so it's more than 50% compost.) I planned on filling it with flowers, but I'm getting greedy and thinking about more vegetables to plant, so I'm running out of space for flowers!

I'm worried about not having enough flowers, because last year there weren't any bees around, so I had to manually pollinate all my veggies. (This led to a running joke from my boyfriend that I'm cheating on him with strawberries. ;)) I hope our terrace will be more interesting to bees this year.

I planted lettuce and parsley. I first planned on tucking the parsley somewhere in between other plants, but then I felt very generous and planted it in a square of its own. I just couldn't visualize parsley in between my tulips! I'm going to plant a few onions, too - they're already sprouting in the kitchen, I might as well put them in the soil, as they're not edible anyway, and maybe they'll grow.

The weather is getting warmer, but there are still little piles of snow hanging around. I used weather data for the last 10 years to determine the likely date of the last spring frost and calculated planting times from that. I hope my calculations weren't too far off!

Both containers are all tidied up now!

Tulips and hyacinths are coming out!