Michigan Gardening: New to Forum, 1 by pamq

pamq wrote:
Thank you for all of the welcomes. My husband and I garden on about an acre in SE MI. I am a librarian by day and gardener the rest of the time (when I'm not spending time with my grandchildren). I love gardening with containers and have a greenhouse for overwintering the tenders. There are also way more daylilies in my yard that a person has a right to own. We also love organic vegetable gardening and freezing and canning the produce. We used to have more homestead animals but now we are down to 10 laying chickens and 3 cats.
So you want a picture? Hmmm - here is one of my favorite containers - a big, cast-iron, pig scalding kettle I got at a yard sale for just a few bucks. I remember the guy I bought it from apologizing for the crack in the bottom and warning me it wouldn't be watertight. (Did he think I would be scraping pig-hides?) I was just thinking that I wouldn't have to drill any holes for drainage. Anyway - I like to think I rehabilitated the kettle to a much better purpose.

Pam