Planting a pizza garden...in a container...

Shawn and I decided to spend last weekend doing a few outdoor projects. We started off by visiting the Home and Garden Expo at the convention center in Raleigh.  We had a great time exploring the backyard vendors' booths. There were full backyards set up to look at that included giant pools with beautiful stonework. I should have gotten a picture of those. It all just made my desire to have a hot tub that much stronger. Parties on the patio and hanging out in the hot tub in the evening, yes please!

With all that inspiration, we headed to Lowe's. Shawn wanted to work on the lawn a bit, and I wanted to plant some strawberries. We started out purchasing just some items for the lawn, a strawberry pot, and some items necessary to plant strawberries. While there we picked up a Lowe's catalog, and from that we of course got some more ideas.

There was an article on creating a pizza container garden. Shawn and I enjoy making our own pizza, so I decided we should certainly have a pizza garden. We headed back to Lowe's for the necessary items. (Thank goodness Lowe's is only a mile away).

We now have three nice containers on our back patio.

One is growing strawberries, and the other two are our pizza garden. We have red and green peppers in one, and tomatoes and a variety of herbs in the other.

Here's hoping that in a few months time we are making pizza with our own toppings as well!