Tower Gardening

As a former Kansas girl, and in the farming family, I should be able to grow things.  However, living in the desert of Southern California, it's hard to grow things.  And then if the environment and weather doesn't get your garden, the critters will.  The last 2 seasons, the rabbits and squirrels ate everything.  Hubs protested that I wasn't watering enough.  That I was over watering.  Then I snapped a couple pics of a squirrel eating the zucchini flowers.  And then I texted them to him.  

This year, late one night, I was perusing pinterest.  And stumbled upon tower gardening.  So I researched it.  And came across some interesting youtube videos and blogs.  So we made our own.  It took hubs and I a couple weeks to finish this project.  Apparently none of these people work.  Or they don't have kids.  Or both.  And it was frustrating.  It took forever in between parts.  The waiting just about drove me batty.  But we finished it.  And 10 bags of gardening soil didn't even fill it up.  What I'm happiest about it the composting feature.  You see, my composting bin is also getting raided by the squirrels.  They are running to it every time I add something in it before I get to my back door.  This tower has a center tube for composting with a lid at each end.  I'll post pictures once we transplant our seedlings to it.