Wine Barrel Planter Tub…Before, After, and After-After!

I decided to copy an idea and plant an olive tree and some rescued lavender into a half wine-barrel. Pooh-eee, did it smell like red wine for a while! Finally getting sick of looking at the bags of soil, and the plants struggling to survive in the summer sun, I filled ‘er up with soil, and planted away. I was remiss, and didn’t drill holes into the bottom to let the water out…I read that stones would do the trick instead. Pity I didn’t put enough in. As you will see..

Here we have the beginning of the project (having hauled the damn thing several places to make sure it was sited “just right”). And then we have the completed project…or so I thought!

Well….like I said…I didn’t prepare the tub properly..it rained one day, and my plants were drowning in a few inches of water! I attempted to scoop it out, but realised the futility of this, and promptly quit. The dogs, however, were verrrrry interested in the fishy smelly water that I had dumped on the ground. I was a bit worried about was was in the soil mix, legionnaires and all, and crossed my fingers that them licking a few drops wouldn’t hurt.

No…didn’t hurt a bit..seems they loved it! A wee bit later when I went out to check on the doggies, here is what we found…

Yes, Chase has decided it would do nicely as his new swimming pool! But I’m betting Elle egged him on!

But, I ask you…how could you get mad at this face?!