Garden planters

Someone had asked for more photos of my garden planters, after a piece of them appeared in an earlier post. We've got a small patio off our kitchen: about 10'x10', enclosed by 6' wooden walls, partially covered, tiled ground. I wanted to grow some vegetables this summer. I reasoned that I do a better job of eating salad if the ingredients are already at home. Besides, it was a better use of our patio than ignoring it until it gets dirty. Above is a a panorama shot of the half I've planterized.

Aside: Hugin Panorama Creator is totally awesome, I highly recommend it. That is actually five photos taken from the far left. Hugin not only merges them, but can project them, too (notice it looks like it was taken from the center, not the left).
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Garden specifics:

The left long barrel contains a crapload of lettuce. From the back: green leaf, red leaf, & romaine. The right long barrel is mainly greens as well: spinach, mustard greens, and green onions (transplanted from an older planting). The red pot is catnip. I planted most of these three weeks ago, and had my first salad last night. Very tasty.



The far left box (something from the in-laws collection of random stuff) has a summer squash and a zucchini plant. The horizontal-cut barrel on the far right is a cherry tomato plant in the back, flanked by two jalapeno plants (I'm hoping to make a bunch of chipotle this summer). These two boxes have only been in planted for 10 days or so, hence their delayed growth. That, and lettuce grows like mad.

This small box in front has some transplanted chives, which I'd never noticed the blooms on before. Sharing the box is some thyme.
Below is the complete patio, including the clutter side.


Since spending this much time jabbering about my patio probably drove every one who isn't my wife away, here's some pictures purely for her benefit. The front door, with flowers.


...and the cat, doing what she does best.