Garden Table For Crops

I found this last year summer. Took it for plant pots, smaller ones that support crops like radishes or spring onions. But I didn't have any radish seeds and the spring onions were a fiasco (as well as this year, I don't know what the supermarket sold me, but if from hands full of seeds sowed not one grows normally something's not right). 

The idea is that smaller pots if raised are better protected against slugs and on top my experience (from hanging on the wooden fence) is that the rough wood helps as well. They don't like creeping up on it.

I left it behind the shed and sort of forgot about it. Never even checked condition, but at first sight it looked good.

This year I suddenly have a load of radish seeds, from a batch of expired all sorts donated to the thrift shop that I couldn't put for sale. I take take them home and experiment. Well from the bean seeds so far nothing came up. That's why.

I threw a handfull of the radish in a grow box and most came up. So I had to plant them out. Started yesterday. But I put the pots in the wrong place. Too low to the ground, overnight they were visited by slugs. Those that survived suffered from the few hours of sun that I have right there in the hottest time, between 1 and 4 pm. Actually I recently learned that radishes, and most root crops, don't like too much sun. So they should be perfect for my shadowy garden.

I then remembered the table. Behind the shed where I stored it would have been an ok place because the trees behind filter the light, but the thing is currently it's kind of a jungle from wild plants that I didn't have time for to remove straight away. And those attract bees so as long as I don't need the space they can stay.

I did have to do some cutting to pull the half overgrown table out! But found the perfect place for it by the north side of the fence, and folding it out it turned out, though old and used, to be perfectly intact. This is close by my back door and handy to keep an eye on the growth. I'll see tomorrow morning how they are doing. Now knowing that these seeds are good I can alway sow again and this time directly in the pots and I have some place for more.

The chair that came with tthe table is damaged though, but that has served as a pot stand since last year underneath the upstairs balcony. This one radish is doing well since yesterday. I forgot what experiment is in the other pot. The little pot is flowers from free seeds a supermarket hands out.