Spring Fever

I want a garden!!  My hubby is not exactly on-board.  Boo!  I will admit, though, that we have a few items that are...well, lets just say not conducive to growing a typical garden.

1.  We live on a postage-stamp sized lot.  Actually, we live on one of the largest sized lots in our neighborhood, but trust me when I tell you that is not saying much  :-).  So regardless, it is still not really big enough for a traditional garden.

2.  Its probably not allowed by the homeowners association...not that that would really stop me....I am a rebel. :-)

3.  We have these little friends to keep in mind:

Sandhill Crane

Right after we moved in, I spent close to 100 dollars on flowers only to have these little buggers literally up-heave each and every one in search for bugs and/or worms.  Not good!

So what is a girl to do???  My thought was a raised bed garden inside the screened-in pool area...again, Hubby gave me the thumbs down.  Apparently, he is concerned with what we would do with all the dirt after the garden was harvested....blah!

So...we compromised with this:

BAHAHAHA!!!  Its not much, but at least it is something!  I bought orange planters to match my orange patio furniture:

It will do.  I-----I mean Hubby, planted a tomato plant and some squash.  I also bought some seeds for spinach but apparently I did not relay this info appropriately, because he planted two containers of squash and didn't plant the spinach seeds. <sigh>   Oh well, this is what I get for not doing it myself...but do you know how difficult it is to get dirt out of your fake fingernails???  Seriously....

So did you plant a garden this year??  Is it a traditional garden or a pseudo garden like mine?  Do share...